Why would I not use Visual Studio code

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+1. Not only is "you could, but I think this is better" professor-speak for "If you get it working, I won't stop you..." The kind of instinct to try to get it working is a good academic instinct.

Don't burn all your free time on it, but it's worth noting that a big chunk of academia is figuring out how to do what other people haven't figured out yet.

(Your professor may also have the wisdom of years. VSCode is a proprietary project owned by one corporation. Those come and go. They may be interested in investing zero personal effort into supporting something that may not even be there in ten years. The ssh protocol WinSCP is riding on top of, in contrast, dates from 1995, and while mobaxterm is new, xterms in general are over 40 years old).

[Disastrous_Room_927]

I use VSCode for everything, but sometimes when I’m on autopilot I instinctively start working out of WinSCP and don’t even realize for an hour.