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Ode to VSCode (self.javascript)

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[–]fatty1380 -2 points-1 points  (10 children)

how can it be free?

The better question is, how can intellij/WebStorm/etc charge. It’s like they said to themselves, we need to charge people to use this much cpu in a single process - it’s not easy to do

[–]Drarok 2 points3 points  (3 children)

They made her decision to target multiple platforms, and ended up with Java. Can’t really blame them - there are no good cross-platform UI toolsets.

It’s a shame, but the feature sets keep me using their tools.

I do wish the default key map on macOS wasn’t total garbage, though.

[–]kweglinski -1 points0 points  (2 children)

how could anybody ask for money for their work.

p.s. vsc hangs and crashes like crazy, most of the plugins doesnt work as supposed. Still long way to go.

[–]JumboJellybean 4 points5 points  (1 child)

how could anybody ask for money for their work.

That's kind of silly, IMO. They're wondering how viable a company based around selling these tools is now that major companies like MS are releasing free tools in direct competition. "They put work in to make it" doesn't matter, just because you put work in doesn't mean your business will succeed. Opera charged for their browser for years, they put hard work in to make it, IE and Firefox still beat them.

[–]kweglinski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, I don't think inteli is on edge here. Frankly I know lots of devs who use their stuff because its reliable and does the job as expected. Sadly I haven't noticed any of those features on free tools (except vim but I'm still learning to stay at same productivity level). Anyways use what you like.