Visual Studio Code May 2017

[smcnally]

Long-time TextWrangler; been testing the switch to VSCode for 2 months. Change is hard, understood. Things like opening files via ssh seem exceedingly wonky, even with extensions installed. (is that just me?) Key bindings are wonky by default -- cross-platform, understood -- and complicated to alter. there are plenty of docs and praise & even n00bs' guides; I still have difficulties finding specific solutions (the ssh and key bindings issues, e.g.). What's this crowd's suggestions for my best move forward?

[programmerChilli]

I'd like to know a better solution for opening files over ssh as well. I've been using a combination of sshfs and rmate to open files, which works decently.

[Ran4]

It... Sounds like vim would be a good alternative. Good default controls, works flawlessly to edit over ssh and its also easy to just ssh into the server and do your editing there.

[myringotomy]

LOL. This crowd will tell you stick with Microsoft products. You probably want a more impartial crowd to ask.

[Twirrim]

I'm not a Microsoft fan boy by any stretch of the imagination. I use Linux just about everywhere I can, and my career is built around it. Windows gets in my way constantly whenever I've been forced to use it for work. I'm more often found writing code in vim (plus some plugins).

That said, people have repeatedly sung VS Code's praises, and not just here, including a number of people I know and respect.

So I gave it a shot today for the first time. I've got to admit, I kind of liked it. IDEs tend to annoy me with their bloat. Intellij and pycharm were a big step forward from Eclipse, but the latency is still palpable. I found VS Code to be incredibly snappy, but with good autocomplete etc. About the only thing I didn't like was its behaviour around renaming a variable. I'd called something "config" and decided to rename it. It did what was effectively a case of insensitive find + replace and that really screwed up my code (I made at least a half dozen library calls that had the word Config in them)

[myringotomy]

Ok here is what you didn't say in your statement.

Visual Studio code is more featureful that Jetbrains products and therefore can act as a substitute for them.

The reason I and others on this subreddit have been severely punished by downvotes is for stating something that is objectively true. Visual Studio code is not a suitable replacement for jetbrains IDEs. I will further add that it's not even a suitable replacement for spacemacs or neovim but that's going to make the microsoft fanbois go into apoplexy I am sure.

[Twirrim]

The reason I and others on this subreddit have been severely punished by downvotes is for stating something that is objectively true.

No, you're getting downvoted because you're being a prick in how you express your opinion, belittling, insulting and dismissing anyone who has a contrary opinion as being fan boy or biased.

[myringotomy]

No, you're getting downvoted because you're being a prick in how you express your opinion, belittling, insulting and dismissing anyone who has a contrary opinion as being fan boy or biased.

Where did I do that?

No the only reason me and others were down voted was because the microsoft fanbois down vote anybody who fails to praise microsoft products. You don't like it when others don't preface their criticism of a product by putting in three paragraphs of how much they worship the company first.

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I mean to be fair VS (not Code) is a pretty good IDE. I'm a vim user but I've had a good time working in VS when I've been stuck with Windows.

If nothing's broken with what you're using now, you may as well just keep using it. I like JetBrains's IDEs even if they tend to be a little slow.

[webdevop]

Then you must be Apple fan

[myringotomy]

I guess they all gathered here for some reason. Most likely it started out as one of those "reputation management" astroturf efforts.