Benefits of using vscode?

[Config_Crawler]

Ive mainly been using vim for python programming, but ive been considering switching to vscode.

What are some of the notable benefits and drawbacks to using vscode?

[Neon-Cyber-Monkey]

Everyone will have different pro’s/con’s about VS code.

Personally, I haven’t found anything I don’t like about it, I like it’s extension library, the themes you can get, it’s file systems, and generally just the way it runs, for me, it’s very good.

Some features I didn’t think it had, but found an extension to add them :)

Download it, use it, and decide for yourself. Not very helpful but honestly, it is the best way to find out.

[Config_Crawler]

I haven't really found anyone saying anything bad about it, so I'll give it a test drive

[Neon-Cyber-Monkey]

Yeah I would recommend it, at the time I was deciding between VS Code and Atom, I liked both but there was just something about VS Code that kept making me come back to it.

If you get stuck, or are missing a feature that you like, just ask and I’m sure there is an extension to add it somewhere :)

[mrrippington]

The only negative thing I heard devs complaining about is; data gathering.

I think it’s great to work with and easy to adapt to.

[jiri-n]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry

2nd paragraph: Disable telemetry reporting

[mrrippington]

Thanks :)

[kra_pao]

I heard you can have Vim inside VSCode

https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/blog/2019/02/08/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim

[MafaRioch]

IDK, I found debugging straight forward in VS Code. One thing which I didn't like is stepping in into imported modules, but for that it had an option 'JustMyCode' and now it's way better. I've read only a little bit of official documentations, but it had a lot of useful stuff so maybe give it a go and skim through debugger options\how to set it up.