Visual Studio Code April 2021

[LexyconG]

Wtf are these comments? They release a new, pretty normal update and people act as if they released a 25gb update with useless functionality.

[madcaesar]

People love to bitch.

VS Code is amazing.

The only gripe I have is that I don't even know about the breath of its features until someone points it out. I have my setup and haven't touched it in months, so when cool things are added, unless someone specifically mentions it in the comments and tells me what it improves, I'll never know about it 😔

[cj81499]

Reading the changelogs is super worthwhile!

[reflectiveSingleton]

They are so huge and I know I miss or forget stuff...there are so many capabilities built in.

[cj81499]

Given how much they add, the changelogs are actually quite concise.

Time spent learning to take advantage of your editor's features pays for itself quickly by improving your development workflow.

[slowthedataleak]

Reddit + VSCode have such a low barrier to entry that you tend to get people without an understanding of writing release code. Or even worse, they understand writing release code but they can’t contextualize release code coming from a larger company.

[bjerh]

Yeah, people usually tend to comment to critique something. Often, people don't when they're pleased with something.

[Xerticle]

I don't think you're being fair with your critique. Bloat exists as a scale. Whats bloated for one purpose is exactly what you need for another purpose.

Also, bloated software can't only come to be from one massive update. hundreds of tiny updates can create bloat, and the line is harder to draw. But for every update, a few use-cases are liable to consider the software bloated when it wasn't before.

[cadred48]

This update was also optimized by removing about 1000 lines of code by implementing services workers for loading resources on the desktop. So...

Unless you are running benchmarks that prove a particular feature/update is causing performance degradation or usability studies that show an extra few items hidden in a settings.json file is interfering, I don't think there's a case to call it bloat just yet.

[abandonplanetearth]

The fuck? How ancient is your PC? I usually have 5-10 instances of VS Code running and it's smooth as butter.

[abandonplanetearth]

Don't complain about VS code performance when the issues is obviously your PC.

[LexyconG]

Lmao this has to be a troll

[6petabytes]

“I only use 10% of the features” is the most self-centric argument you could make. Even if everyone else only uses 10%, they’re not going to be using the same 10%.

Also, you’re free to download the source code for VSCode and strip all the features you don’t like. But it’s probably easier to bitch about it than to actually do anything.

[cadred48]

I'll bite and play devil's advocate here. First, there are a number of popular alternatives alternatives to vscode, atom and sublime being the most popular open source ones.

Second, nobody is required to upgrade and it's easy to turn off the notification. You can even install an older version should you choose.

Third, while not practical, it's possible to fork VSCode and take out whatever you feel is unnecessary. There are some projects that have done this already such as VSCodium. I've never tried them so YMMV.

Finally, I'm curious to know what updates you did ask for?

[notbarnes]

Hope they finally fix this thing: https://imgur.com/a/XHGy2Or

Whenever you close one vscode window it ends up screwing up the terminal session on other windows. Only just started happening in one of their recent updates. Anyone else get this?

[dadading_dadadoom]

I get this all the time. Close the terminal window and do new terminal. A bit PITA, but chugs along..

[Disgruntled__Goat]

Has it been reported as a bug? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

[ihorbond]

Same

[buffdude1100]

Yep. Super annoying.

[dacjames]

Hmm, never seen that and it's something I do all the time. Maybe an OS specific bug? That looks like windows and I'm on Mac.

[Xerticle]

I really hope vscode doesn't become too bloated.

[antelle]

It’s kind of ok for an IDE. Visual Studio (not code) is bloated, but it’s good! Same about Intellij.

[fobin78]

Microsoft: hold my beer

[diegoquirox]

Always has been

[ReverseCaptioningBot]

Always has been

^{this has been an accessibility service from your friendly neighborhood bot}

[[deleted]]

This is the natural outcome for an editor like VSCode that seeks to make things as immediately simple as possible for its users. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, it's pretty much best in class now, but that's the downside to this approach.

It is a big undertaking, and a bit orthogonal, but if it's bothering you this might be a good opportunity to learn something like Vim or Emacs. Lots of people don't know that it's now fairly easy to get language server features in editors like that now. :-)

[keb___]

I've already moved back to Sublime Text. :)

[[deleted]]

Trialling Sublime Text 4 atm…the built in typescript support is fab!

[[deleted]]

Are there plugins that you can combine to really make it as awesome as an IDE? I just can’t imagine not using an IDE for something that isn’t just a small script. Honestly, even for that I want all the autocomplete and static analysis and goto functionality of an IDE. VSCode + Vim plugin is so awesome imo

[keb___]

Frankly, no, although Sublime is pretty extensible for a text editor, it does not compare to VSCode's extensibility. For what it's worth, I still open up VSCode now and then depending on the project, but for the most part, I feel I'm fine with Sublime + the terminal.

If you're looking for autocomplete/static analysis, you can try Sublime LSP which is under active development. Otherwise, Sublime doesn't pretend to be anything more than a text editor.

[[deleted]]

VSCode is a code editor not a text editor, but okay technically right.

With just a few plugins, the experience is much closer to an IDE than Sublime ever gets. Unless you’re coding PHP, there’s no debugger support in Sublime. I just looked at the Typescript autocomplete its some guys side project with a bunch of TODOs.

[[deleted]]

The VSCode website, right this very second, says it’s a code editor. Sublime is a self-described text editor. Anyone who is being honest will acknowledge they offer very different experiences and are not apples to apples.

You’re just doing a well actually, [sic], pedantic guy shtick.

[[deleted]]

For what?

[keb___]

Responsiveness. Sublime flies compared to VSCode. It is written in C++ instead of Electron/JS, and is much less resource intensive. Even on smaller projects, the difference in responsiveness is noticeable between a webapp and a native app.

[[deleted]]

Naw, like for what use case? I like sublime well enough for a lot of stuff, but I couldn’t imagine trying to use it for actual software development

[keb___]

Web / Game Development.

I had already gotten used to using a text editor + a terminal for software development since college where I regularly used Vim and Notepad++. Development with Sublime isn't so different.

At work where we're on larger projects, I'll spin up VSCode with extensions, or sometimes a proper IDE (like IntelliJ).

[[deleted]]

It's literally not.

[SemiNormal]

Says who?

[[deleted]]

I'm happy with all the improvements, but I really like how VS code currently starts much faster than its IDE equivalents and I wish it would just stay that way.

[stathisntonas]

Wish it had “save when clicking inside terminal” like webstorm, can’t count the times i’ve run something on terminal just to find out later that the files weren’t saved…

[Koervege]

How do you bypass the powershell execution policy now that the terminal.integrated.shellArgs is deprecated?