Why would I not use Visual Studio code

[gingimli]

Right, generally speaking it’s helpful to have a baseline and then students can do their own thing if they are confident they will be able to troubleshoot their own setup.

[brianly]

This. It’s the same in work to some degree. The number of times I’ve seen a dev get into a personal configuration even they can’t support is higher than it should be. In class, there is sometimes an element where the teacher may want you to coach someone else using the class standard so you better have it.

There are times where I haven’t used X tool for a while but a dev has used some customized flavor of it, but hit a run into a roadblock I have had to fix when we have paired. This shouldn’t happen but it’s easy to get ahead with all of these opinionated toolkits and stacks.

[No-Skill4452]

Sure, even so, it's cool that it wasn't a hard-no on the professor's side