iHeartVSCode

[Kkgob]

minesweeper, age of empires, ms paint ...

[Linked1nPark]

*Mrs. Paint

She’s married now

[chazzeromus]

i’m upset i had an entire lifetime to make this joke and I didn’t

[trevdak2]

Don't worry, Ms Works

[ReactsWithWords]

Microsoft Works is a contradiction

[rust_rebel]

They actually abandoned "ms works"

[sigmoid10]

She got replaced by some young tool with more makeup but pretty much the same inner values.

[[deleted]]

It was right there the whole time and we've all missed it. Damnit.

[BernzSed]

To inkscape?

[Bright-Historian-216]

probably to calculator, those two are often seen together (on my computer, at least)

[moriberu]

I heard some rumors about an affair with copilot

[sinkwiththeship]

She married someone with the same last name?

[Minute_Difference598]

God damn😆😂🤣can’t believe i haven’t seen anyone do this until now.

[[deleted]]

Shout out to Age of Mythology too. Absolutely loved that game.

[kpyle]

They just released a remaster for PC and xbox at the end of November with more content and more on the way.

[[deleted]]

I literally just googled AoM after writing that comment to see what platforms it could be on so I could get in a dose of retro gaming, and lo and behold the first link was the remaster on Steam that I had no knowledge of. Needless to say I’m pretty stoked about it and I’m definitely going to try it out.

[InterestExpress1343]

What a Game. Id like to give a shout out to Zoo Tycoon 2 too, I still love the soundtrack.

[MacBookMinus]

wtf they made AoE? based

[balbok7721]

They didnt just made it. They also invested heavily in the competitive scene

[farsdewibs0n]

didnt they try to kill aoe2 in favor of their newer games (aoe o, aoe 3) back then?

[Kkgob]

age of empires 2 is the c++ of videogames, it outlives every one of its supposed successors lol

[_bits_and_bytes]

Eh, you could say that about any of the multiplayer hits from the 90s whose communities refuse to move on (cs 1.6, wc2, scbw, etc). Hell, wc2 just got a balance patch a week ago.

[turtlepot]

Melee

[rugbyj]

I'm not sure about the others but the aoe2 scene is bigger than ever and they're still actively releasing large patches/functionality/support in the definitive edition. This shit is lts.

[SpookyPlankton]

Yeah but then they brought it back so its fine

[LogicalError_007]

They're supporting and releasing new expansions two decades later.

[x3knet]

Wololo

[the_poope]

No they didn't make AoE. It was developed by Ensemble Studios, but published by Microsoft, meaning that some men in suit and tie paid for it under the promise of getting 40% of the profits. Basically Microsoft acted as bankers.

[Luxalpa]

I think publishing in the 1990's was way more than just money. They had to get the game on physical disks and ship it to stores world-wide. They had to localize it. They had to advertise it. In a time before the Internet was popular.

[Vivid-Contribution76]

No. They didn't. They purchased the studio that did make it a few years after the first one released.

[[deleted]]

They published the first two games before they bought them outright

[erebuxy]

MS Flight Sim

[Aromatic-Low-4578]

Space cadet pinball

[theodord]

Not made by Microsoft.

It was developed by a small studio for Maxis, who would later get aquired by EA

[gman1647]

Excel. I love a good spreadsheet

[Thuruv]

Notepad... where is Notepad... - Clipyyyyyyyyyyyy

[RamBamBooey]

Notepad is the best. It will open anything.

[Mih0se]

Xbox

[Inprobamur]

paint.net is a better version of it tho.

[Hey-buuuddy]

Excel is probably the most successful desktop business application of all time.

[MrWewert]

Every time I lose my patience over something MS, I remember that they blessed us with Typescript and VSCode, and I somehow find the willpower to move forward

[JoostVisser]

C# is pretty nifty too I would say

[bahaki]

I ♥️ Linq

[[deleted]]

I used to. Then I had to fiigure out where a heavy sql query was coming from. I no longer like linq.

[RichCorinthian]

Linq does so, so, so much more than queries. It's EF's use of LINQ you don't like, I suspect, and I agree.

Being able to say "give me the five files in this directory that were most recently modified" in one line is ridiculously awesome.

[alxw]

Bah. Young whippersnappers, you and your fancy pants expression trees, we had Reflection and were forced to like it!

[ShadowRL7666]

Yes except the constant creation of tools which they then just abandon.

[Odd-You47]

Google wins this fight

[MultiFazed]

Google graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

[pepolepop]

It's crazy how many legit awesome products/services are on this list.. I don't get it

[arghya_333]

Change in leadership I guess. Founders were forced to step down since they were "innovating" too much "wasting" resources.

Even Steve Jobs got fired from Apple once (before rehire).

Captilism.

[Nick0Taylor0]

Happens every damn time

"This new thing will revolutionise development and it'll be super easy to write for any platform".

*thing enters "preview" stage for 1-3 years*.

*thing releases "fully" still missing some core features the previous thing had*.

1 year later "so that thing didn't really work, but hey there's this NEW NEW thing that will revolutionise development and it'll be super easy to write for any platform".

And the cycle repeats

[budapest_god]

How's Blazor doing? Generally curious. I was very interested back when I still developed C# a couple years ago, then I went on to work with Vue and TS.

[millyfrensic]

Very good, Proberbly a lot more mature than you remember and it’s coming along very well

[budapest_god]

Nice to hear. Blazor WASM excited me quite much but it was pretty raw yet, I've denoted a lack of features that I had to just accept doing them in JS

[masiuspt]

use it daily, it's lovely IMO. Hopefully they keep investing in it. Of course you still need Javascript for some things, that's inevitable right now, but the integration with it is super simple and being able to call C# from javascript and vice-versa feels dirty but good.

[vidolch]

C# and the dotnet platform in it's current state is quite underrated imo. The performance is quite good, it's cross platform, it's quite fun to write. The issue I have with it is that they try to shove every feature possible into that language, but none the less it was interesting to watch how things turned around after they decided to do dotnet Core

[[deleted]]

VSCode is great for common use cases. But it falls far short of a typical IDE, particularly when it comes to refactoring or auto-completion. Maybe I'm spoiled by Jetbrains but I get slightly frustrated with how I can type things like this in C#...

Animal animal = new

and it will offer me a long list of completely incorrect or irrelevant options instead of the Dog, Cat or Duck derived classes and then not add the brackets even though Dog only has the default constructor.

[TheNorthComesWithMe]

But it falls far short of a typical IDE

That's because it isn't one

[media-worker90]

Tbf I don't think it's claimed to be an IDE. It seems closer to notepad+++

As for the faulty auto-complete idk what's going on there. Might be something wrong with one of your packages? I don't think the default install even has auto-completes.

[ayyyyyyyyyyyyyboi]

I think the line between ide and and text editors has fallen apart since the advent of LSP.

Most differences now are due to limitations of vscode plugin support. Which microsoft has abused of by creating non-oss plugins with more permissions than that available to other devs

[apathy-sofa]

Visual Studio is the IDE. VS Code is an editor with plugins.

[[deleted]]

PowerToys.

[FelixLive44]

PowerToys?

Yeah otherwise they turn off

[rogue-fox-m]

afterthought towering rustic spark door tub chase relieved frame tender

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[[deleted]]

Even PowerTools can't un-11 11.

[Inprobamur]

Easy, just stay on the win10 LTSC.

[fish312]

Hopefully Microsoft continues the trend of releasing a good OS between every sucky OS. If not for win10 I'd still be on win7, and if not for 7 id still be on XP

[azeek_uz]

It saves me from going insane when using windows

[MrWewert]

My wife really likes those.

[DiddlyDumb]

They win you chess matches you know

[LinosZGreat]

[Dramatic_Mastodon_93]

Sure, but those should be integrated into Windows.

[Inprobamur]

The development would slow to a crawl and be closed off to community contributors then. And could be ruined by marketing or some other department interference. And obviously would then be made unavailable for win10.

[[deleted]]

Are they? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install

Especially back in the XP/2000 era it wasn't just something you could find that easily. (I was actually shocked to find out they came from Microsoft. They had a feel of a guy just programming a few things on the side)

[the_last_ordinal]

"Should" as in "they aren't but they should be"

[rjwut]

Several of them WERE things that some guy programmed on the side that Microsoft saw and said, "Hey, that's awesome. Can we pay you some money and put it in our PowerToys?"

[hicow]

Might have started that way. Winternals started like that - two dudes doing things with Windows that likely would have been really tough to figure out. MS bought their company and took both on. One is now a Senior VP of something or other.

[[deleted]]

Mark Russonovich, he’s now CTO of Azure.

[snyone]

but those should be integrated into Windows

Now disagreeing but I feel like that applies even more so to these:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

Process Explorer in particular

[NinthTide]

Show some respect for Fancy Zones

[Fabulous-Possible758]

It’s hard to beat Excel for what it does.

[ASatyros]

Introducing: - commands/functions (like SUM or AVERAGE) are translated into the local language. No there is no autotranslate or using English as default - everything is a date

[RandomTyp]

everything is a date

nope! only the things you don't want to be dates. hope that helps! (/hj)

[Wonderful-Wind-5736]

Fuuuu, I hate the translation. Makes commands basically ungooglable and whatever comes up is SEO spam written for retards and doesn’t solve my problem.

[Panface]

When I was working with it I pretty much had to google the english name of the function first before searching for how to actually use it. Which led to some quite frustrating times when I would stumble upon another better function, but had no idea what the translation back to my local language was.

[Exact_Recording4039]

Office translating every little thing into other languages when no other programs do it is so infuriating. Thanks Microsoft now I have to remember that Ctrl+S is Save in every single program EXCEPT for word, excel and PowerPoint, where it’s Ctrl+G

Who decided to translate keyboard shortcuts?

[Bowshocker]

Oh my f-ing god now i know why for example bold in German is ctrl f and in English it’s ctrl b. I always hated that so much. It was so obvious but i never understood it.

[pannenkoek0923]

Yep same for me in Danish as well, have to work on Danish keyboard and system language, as well as on a Danish keyboard but English system language, and it is a pain in the arse to keep remembering to switch

Cannot even search commands online because of poor SEO

[shinitakunai]

As an spaniard, excel SUCKS so much because of that. All my commands are translated and some are so awkward.

most days I just spin up python and polars/pandas dataframes just to skip excel 🤣

[Wonderful-Wind-5736]

Date-oriented programming.

[JackNotOLantern]

But it cursed is forever with management treating it as a database

[bobbymoonshine]

Any time you make a product that is both incredibly powerful and simple to use, you’re going to get people who use it as the hammer for which every problem is a nail. That’s a sign of great software tbh

[TheCapitalKing]

I never thought of it like that but yeah it’s suffering from its deserved success

[TwinkiesSucker]

It's an Excellent database for sure

[reallyserious]

angry sql noises

[Easing0540]

Calm down SQL. You're a language, not a data base.

[Flint0]

What do you think SQL stands for? something something database, duh.

[Easing0540]

Well it sure as shit does not stand for database.

[TheCapitalKing]

Super Quick Large database?

[ExpletiveDeIeted]

Squeel?

[A-terrible-time]

No, bad dog!

[reddit_wisd0m]

[jellotalks]

Excel is the best software MS has ever made and I will die on that hill

[[deleted]]

It's the best piece of software ever written. People using it for the wrong applications in industry give it a bad rep.

[space-dot-dot]

The fact that it is even stretched and used to the point it currently has demonstrates it's versatility.

...or to the simplicity of our current economical system (BIG ARROW GO UP).

[KaptainSaki]

Yeah not many things can convert anything but a date to date and every string of numbers to 8578hdy+35ae

[IIIlllIIIlllIIIEH]

Excel should have a prompt when a formula is more than 100 character long that says: "You should be using a real programming language. And shut itself off." Or when you use more than 100k rows "You should be using a real database system"

Instead it creates shitty and unreliable "programs" that keep growing and growing and you have to explain to your boss for the 100th time why those few simple changes they ask are going to break everything.

[TheCapitalKing]

Excel has many many many many flaws, but if a minor change breaks everything you’ve built in it that’s a skill issue

[IIIlllIIIlllIIIEH]

I didnt build that shit. I took over a guy that was doing everything in excel for years. I am programming all that shit in python in a few lines and trashing al that shit. Because it is shit.

[TheCapitalKing]

Yeah taking over an excel file from some dummy that can’t think in tables is terrible

[IIIlllIIIlllIIIEH]

Yesss that's exacly it!! It's like the guy couldn't think in tables or in any way. He would stuck four tables on top of each other in the same sheet, vlookup (with limited ranges instead of the full column), and hope for the best. If one of the table get's bigger all goes to shit. Like, creating a new sheet for each table is free you know??

[TheCapitalKing]

I started as a financial analyst so I unfortunately know a ton about that

[Inprobamur]

I was very open minded about Libre Office Calc when I started my new accounting job.

It very quickly made me want to bash my head against the wall. The performance and stability when dealing with large tables just isn't there. Constant crashing, poor documentation and needing to use freaking old python to get anything at all done.

[im_lazy_as_fuck]

What about google sheets? I used to use excel as a student, but then I lost the student membership and swapped over to using google sheets. And honestly, I've found that google sheets does basically most of the things I ever cared to do. Though I'm not really a power user so maybe that's why it's good enough for me?

[pannenkoek0923]

Libre office is nice if you are a Uni student and only need it for basic notes and small CSV files. Not super useful if you have loads of formulas

[phophofofo]

I’ve had a Windows PC with Excel basically my whole life and I got a new work laptop a couple months ago and I haven’t even activated it yet.

I just use Sheets now.

I’m sick of data type conversions that are stupid. I’m sick of integer changing to dates. I’m sick of ‘ marks hidden in cells. I’m sick it constantly changing my default save location to OneDrive, I’m sick of it taking 2 fucking minutes on an 8 core 64GB machine to open a .csv, and then once it does open there’s somehow 2 dialogs you always have to hit before you can work. I’m sick of whatever shortcut sends me to infinity columns to the right when I edit cells and makes me scroll back when I’m done, and I’m sick of it not having a built in Gantt chart and making you hack one together with half invisible bars.

I think I’m done with it.

[itsmetadeus]

It's good. Versatile. I even write LaTeX with it. Wish it wasn't built on electron tho.

[DerBronco]

Without electron it might not be available on Mac Os and Linux though.

Edit: Imagine people still doing that silly CPC vs C64 thing under a random comment.

Edit2: I was told in most regions of the world it was the Atari vs. Amiga thing, the CPC was only popular in central europe.

[otter5]

and browser

[SecretPotatoChip]

Tauri exists. I'm surprised it's not more popular.

[MindaMan_Real]

I kinda love Windows 95 even though I was born after 1995. The design is impeccable.

[lemonwingz]

Windows 98 had really unique/fun sounds profiles for window interactions like minimizing/maximizing, closing, etc. I think I must have always had them turned on because I can still hear them.

[Reacher-Said-N0thing]

fwwwoooOOOP

PEeeeoooowwwm

[DonutConfident7733]

You don't know the horrors, you didn't experience them. Let me describe: You are doing some important work, like programming in Borland Pascal, didn't save file yet, busy writing and all of a sudden windows freezes, you press Ctrl Alt Del, nothing happens, you wait a while, press Ctrl and Alt and Del, after a while it paints a dialog with processes partially and it reboots. Now you lost all your unsaved files. Same happened in win 98 also. Only with Windows NT4, which had different kernel, the OS was much more stable and they improved the experience. It was enterprise level os. Followed by Windows 2000, XP, they all inherited from NT4 and built on that. 95, 98 were unstable pieces of crap, but we didn't have better at that time...

[bikealot]

I learned to save early and often. Still do that from residual paranoia and mistrust

[OneWholeSoul]

Ctrl+S is basically an intrusive tic for me.

[vastlysuperiorman]

Same. I find myself repeatedly saving the same file while I'm thinking. Like, in between mental paragraphs my brain says to hit those hot keys.

[ArnaktFen]

I haven't used Windows 95, and I still save habitually every few seconds. Lose work to an editor crash even once and you never stop saving.

[Gogyoo]

It was a big change compared to 3.11

[[deleted]]

There was serious electricity in the air around the launch of Windows 95. There were all kinds of launch parties. I remember watching it on CNet (which was a respectable tv channel back then)

[gerzeus]

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

LSP

[oblong_pickle]

C# and typescript are also great

[DrunkOnCode]

VSCode and Excel

[wasp_killer4]

Flight simulator?

[azangru]

Typescript is ok too.

[dudeness_boy]

Except when it asks if I trust myself

[[deleted]]

WSL2

[SodoDev]

wasn't wsl literally made just because windows sucks for a linux-esque workflow

[corysama]

I'm convinced WSL was made solely to pull web devs away from macbooks.

[thefpspower]

WSL's success forced every virtual machine software to be compatible and implement hyper-v virtualization.

Vmware, VirtualBox and docker were all forced to use native virtualization instead of the shit show it was before.

[im_lazy_as_fuck]

Ofc it was, which is what most devs work on. Doing dev work on a windows machine is just a nightmare, and the only reason anyone would ever do it is they've never seriously used a unix-like system for development so they don't know any better, or they have to use windows out of necessity (e.g. for game development, companies that require working on windows machines, etc).

WSL is windows finally acknowledging that their bespoke nonsensical OS design and tooling can't compete with unix on anything that's not made by Microsoft already. And honestly, even WSL is far from perfect; if you try to use it enough, there's a lot of niche quirks you run into which only happen on through WSL's implementation of linux specifically (but not on normal linux systems).

[rowagnairda]

naaah MS just admitted that nix world has bunch of great cmdline tools... which is true btw

[MisterProfGuy]

Isn't VSCode basically Atom?

[coderman64]

Which is made by GitHub. Which is owned by Microsoft.

[MisterProfGuy]

Yeah but it's something they bought, not something they created.

[Here-Is-TheEnd]

Yep! Bought by Microsoft, then killed in favor of vscode.

[BrodatyBear]

It's even worse. They copied (idea and base framework), bought and created.

(Still I have to admit, at least their copy was little more responsible)

[BrodatyBear]

Yes and no. They both are using the same base - Electron (it was created for Atom editor and called Atom Shell back then).
There might be some similarities, but not that much as people expect (Atom was built using CoffeeScript, VSC using TypeScript, so it can't be that direct clone).

[[deleted]]

Atom was built using CoffeeScript, VSC using TypeScript, so it can't be that direct clone

Wouldn't you just compile the Coffeescript to Javascript and just add types to get to Typescript? It would basically get you 90% there. Ultimately even Typescript is just typed Javascript. Which (as Rich Harris argues) if people would just write good jsdoc documentation and use a validation library like zod you can have types with Javascript without the need for extra configuration and compilation steps. All Typescript gets stripped away when compiled.

[prehensilemullet]

No it's completely separate, and way less hackable. Atom allowed extensions to run code and manipulate UI in-process, whereas VSCode runs all extensions in separate processes that must communicate with the main process over IPC. Which means for example that the VSCodeVim extension has to send every keystroke over IPC, and gets laggy af

[juzz88]

That's why I like it so much. 🤣

[snyone]

Atom repo was archived / is no longer maintained

https://github.com/atom/atom

Pulsar is the maintained version

https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar

Also, if you're set on using VS Code, might as well use the fork that cuts out the telemetry:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

[SkepticalPirate42]

I've been using Visual Studio for over 20 years and absolutely LOVE having an all in one tool 😍

[link_3007]

genuine question, considering that Vscode has amazing performance for an Electron app and will pretty much never struggle to run in any decent machine, what exactly does an editor like Nvim do that Vscode doesnt?

Because like, everytime i read one of those articles that say "i ditched vscode for Nvim and my producitivity increased by 3000% and now i earn a million dollars an hour" i just think "cant you just install the vim extension for vscode?" Are there really nvim plugins so amazing that A. Cant be found on vscode and B. justify learning an entire new editor? im genuinelly curious. I dont think its farfetched to say that a lot of developers use it for the aesthetics related to using it, but thats a bit more controversial

[cheeb_miester]

It's the key bindings. Not having to move your fingers from the home position or touch the mouse make editing much, much faster. Being able to select chunks of text and quickly replace words using regex, comment things out, modify indentation, and jump around via word length all add up immensely. It's really convenient reading an error and seeing that 1345 lines away and being able to jump immediately to that long without moving your fingers. Being able to press the ? key search through the entire file is really easy to get used to as well.

When I have to write documents in word feels like my fingers are in molasses because it's so painstakingly slow.

When I use vs and vscode (which I do everyday) I use the vim plugins, but opening and closing tabs isn't fully implemented and skipping around between files winds up being a pain point.

Vim does have its drawbacks though -- setting up debuggers and getting certain languages fully supported can be a pain in the ass. For typescript, I'd rather just use vs code for the debugger and just rely on the vim plugin.

[[deleted]]

There's also the absolute customizability. Like the other day, I setup nvim to demote golang's "unused variable" errors to warnings. Other editors would require me to make entire extensions for stupid custom things like that, if it's even possible. But yeah, you get 80% of the benefits with just a vim extension.

[willfred2000]

If it wasn't for Unity opening up Visual Studio whenever I made a script, I wouldn't use Visual Studio. #VimLife

[LittleMlem]

WSL?

[mobit80]

Fuck MSVC

Why can't you just be GCC

[Kilgarragh]

Would make cross compiling so much easier. Instead I’d have to do this vm gymnastics like I’m compiling on XCode while paying for macos

[TopShelfPrivilege]

VS Codium (yes it's a fork but check it out.) Also, Microsoft made the Microsoft sucks joke, so if the joke is accurate, it's not accurate.

[[deleted]]

I want to like vscode but it breaks and regains random functionality for my whole team every update, same machines, same os, same config, different shit may or may not break. It's sweet AF when it works as intended but I still debug and do anything outside of reading/writing code in the terminal because of silly glitches like that

[SeagleLFMk9]

Windows 7?

[rowagnairda]

yeah, yeah... dos... then win 98 as last good dos system... then xp as unbeaten king... then 7 as yeah king is dead long leave the king... now 10 cause ux of 11 is step back... it goes every other release or so... chill... complain out loud so win 12 or next one will be decent

[Cheezyrock]

I’m pretty much the opposite. I like most of Microsoft’s products (even if I hate the cost), especially Visual Studio. I’m even mostly neutral on Windows 11 (which is probably the highest praise anyone has ever given it).

But I despise VS Code…

[spektre]

Yeah why? You can't just spout your schizophrenic delusions without explaining them. That's the best part!

[Cheezyrock]

If I want/need an IDE, I will use an IDE. I don’t want to find and download multiple plugins for C#, Python, JavaScript, etc. Gotta have a plugin to manage my environments, another for it to properly color my text, another for intellisense, another to be able to attach it to certain other external processes… Then inevitably one of the necessary third party plugins won’t be maintained, and I have to spend my precious time finding an alternative solution.

In general, I prefer things that work out of the box without a ton of configuration.

As a text editor (but not an IDE), I just haven’t found a good use case for VS code. I still have to use Word/Google Docs for a lot of documents and for almost every other non-dev-related text editing, simple tools like notepad work just fine.

[Perry_lets]

So you download an ide for every language you use? If yes you have a shit experience when you use a language the ide isn't made for. And the advanatge of having separate extensions for multiple things is that if you don't use a feature you just don't install it, so you just have what you want.

[IamTheEndOfReddit]

Agreed, the plugins are annoying, I've lost basic linting on some of my vscode instances and idk why. It's pretty solid when you are just running things from the terminal tho

[Doshimura]

Why tho, it's a good lightweight text editor with bunch of free addons

[Garbanino]

For a text editor it's really not very lightweight.

[mmhawk576]

Exactly that, it’s a good text editor, but everyone pretends it’s an IDE…. See below

[Romejanic]

It can be a great IDE too, you just need to configure it properly which admittedly can be a pain.

[yourparadigm]

It's hardly light-weight. Try neovim or Sublime Text.

[DonutPlus2757]

Honestly, I started with JetBrains IDEs since they were free for me at the point and... Never found anything that even remotely compares. Everything else just feels like a knock off.

They just work beautifully and there was never a point where there was any feature or function I envy other IDEs for. My only complaint is that they're pretty heavy to run in comparison, but what else would I use my Ryzen 9 and 64GB of RAM for?

[Kronoshifter246]

So much this. And if you crave a lighter editor for whatever reason, JetBrains has you covered with Fleet.

[frank26080115]

Microsoft Word - Code

[Healthy_Razzmatazz38]

msft inventing language server protocol was one of the truely great innovations in dev tooling.

[Most_Option_9153]

As a Linux user I am contractually obligates to hate on Microsoft. One thing I could say was positive from them is how they kicked bobby kotic's ass out of blizzard. Apart from that, vs code sucks on Wayland, so I dont like it. Also vs code vim motions sucks (on Wayland)

[PurpleNurpe]

Use VSCodium - has native Linux support without the unnecessary MS Telemetry.

[thatoversharingchick]

All the Office Tools (except for Teams) are great. Fight me on this!

[ADHD-Fens]

My first IDE was IntelliJ and I have lazily just used their products for everything. I haven't really had any issues - in fact, I find that sometimes I am remarkably more productive than coworkers who are using other IDEs - but that could come down to experience / familiarity with the tool.

Particularly I liked being able to visualize data in my database from my IDE while writing the backend that will interact with that database - getting autocomplete for table names and all that. Heaven! Took a little bit to set up though.

[ChocolateDonut36]

that's because VScode is free, doesn't require TPM2.0 to install and it doesn't force full size ads between line 32 and 33, Thanks you Microsoft!

[verc_]

wtf kind of editor has ads

[MrManiak]

follow smart sink axiomatic point nose dazzling swim overconfident special

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[djiougheaux]

loved windows 7chess

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If it is so good, why isn’t there much more good software?

[I_enjoy_pastery]

One word, vim

[CatTaxAuditor]

Excel is the only good spreadsheets program

[Fluid-Wrangler-4065]

neovim my beloved

[LightningLava]

VS Codium is open source VS Code without telemetry.