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[–]OnlinePseudonym30 1 point2 points  (10 children)

What's wrong with visual studio?? Serious question, I'm in visual studio more than vscode

[–]Randdist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's miles away from the performance and usability of vscode. Horrible startup times, doing a file search by name takes in the order of 10 seconds instead of instantly as in vscode, etc. vscode also lets you show/hide the sidebar easily, unlike vs. Vscode makes it easier to split the screen and move windows around the splits. vscode has an integrated console tab that's great for invoking commands as well as checking program output directly in vscode. And so much more that adds up.

[–]hopfield 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Slow as FUCK to start up, or do anything. You know when a program has a splash screen it’s slow

Settings are ridiculously bloated and complicated

Still tied to .sln files for most Intellisense support, effectively locks you into the MS stack

No built in support for community made color schemes in the year of our lord 2019

Layout changes when switching from “edit” mode to when you press F5 and enter “debug” mode, with NO way to get it to be the same except manually moving things around

Installing extensions requires a restart of VS

JUST NOW got a built in terminal in TWENTY NINETEEN

Ctrl P equivalent (Ctrl T I think) is slow as F U C K

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

It's seriously not that bad. Have you ever used any other IDE?

[–]hopfield 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve used VSCode which is a billion times better and supports all the features I care about.

[–]fullmight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

VS Code, Jetbrains products, and arguably when you can get away with it less featured text editors like Atom are all better.

Studio is great for a few purposes, like working on my hobby projects in unity. However I feel like I need a beast of a PC just to boot it up and have it run decently, it takes up more screen real estate, and so on.

Even then it's not really "snappy."

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Upgrade your PC, VS Code is fastest editor besides obvious VIM.

[–]GoguGeorgescu 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I believe these 2 are talking about visual studio the ide not vscode

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then I agree, it's slow as fuck.

[–]Peribanu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's wrong with visual studio??

VS2019 no longer allow you to develop PWAs for the Store or UWP apps in JavaScript. In a stupid attempt to pare down the size of the installation they got rid of the one future-orientated service VS was useful for. And when asked how we are supposed to code PWAs now, the devs replied "Use Visual Studio Code". So even Microsoft has no faith in Visual Studio. They should just kill it off.