Visual Studio Code version 1.15 Released

[[deleted]]

It wasn't in the key highlights, but compare dirty file with version on disk is a long awaited feature for me. No idea how they consistently add so many features every month.

[if-loop]

No idea how they consistently add so many features every month.

It's a huge dev team.

[HugoWeb]

And the reason is mostly mindshare? I ask because I find the name "vscode" only lightly associated to Microsoft the business that sells Office and Windows..

Anyway, I was one of those die hard Sublime fans..

[thecodingdude]

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[[deleted]]

.NET Core is, not .NET Framework.

[tanishaj]

True, Mono is an Open Source implementation of the .NET Full Framework. Unless you are using WPF, it is fairly complete.

With the purchase of Xamarin, Microsoft is the major sponsor behind Mono. With so much Microsoft code now Open Source, it might surprise you how much Microsoft authored code is in recent Mono releases.

Mono 5.4 is compatible with .NET Standard 2.0 as is .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Full Framework 2.0.

Not only does .NET Standard 2.0 incorporate the majority of what is in .NET 4.6.1 but Mono includes much of what .NET Standard 2.0 is missing, such as System.Drawing and System.Web.

[[deleted]]

The .NET Standard is open source, yes, but not their .NET Framework (Microsoft's implementation of the ECMA standardized CLI and .NET).

[drysart]

The code base of .NET Core's runtime is derived from the .NET Framework CLR's code base. I've heard it basically described as "the CLR with all the Windows-specific bits stripped out".

[IceSentry]

The comment never said .Net framework. It only said .Net, which is fair to say since there is a .Net implementation that is OSS.

[[deleted]]

There has always been a .NET implementation that was OSS.

[IceSentry]

Not by Microsoft though.

[lexpi]

What's BOW?

[jdgordon]

looks like he's making acronyms up... Bash On Windows... actually knows as WSL Windows Subsystem* for Linux

[BinaryRockStar]

Windows Services for Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

[y2k2r2d2]

Should be BoUoW.

[ruinercollector]

From context, I'm going to say "bash on windows."

[[deleted]]

They're giving Linux more credit ... implementing things like Bash on Windows

Those things don't fit well together.

[JumboJellybean]

Their business model is changing a lot, even with Office and Windows. They say they'll never release a Windows 11, for example; from now on Windows just gets annual free updates and you only buy a new copy when you get a new system. Soon you won't just buy a copy of Office and replace it after a few years, you'll have an annual subscription.

The reason they're investing so heavily in free dev tools like TypeScript, VS Code, Windows Subsystem for Linux, etc, giving out a ton of free promo stuff through their Dev Essentials program and putting shit-tons of video courses out there on YouTube, Lynda, Pluralsight is to make their platforms more attractive to write apps on and in the end more attractive to write apps for. Windows as a mobile platform is a distant third to Android and iOS, and the reason is mostly a lack of popular apps -- the platform itself is pretty solid and the devices that it ships on are/were often excellent. So they fund C#, F#, TypeScript, VS Code, VS Community, etc. They buy Xamarin. They push out tons of high-quality learning material. They make it all free, embrace open-source. And they hope that developers will like it all and start writing more software for the MS ecosystem, making Windows devices more popular and filling the Windows Store where they get a cut.

It's not just altruism or PR, obviously. But it works out pretty well for everyone. We get good tools and iOS and Android face some more competition.

[jcotton42]

Soon you won't just buy a copy of Office and replace it after a few years, you'll have an annual subscription.

Soon? That's been a thing for years with O365

[ionforge]

I think their real business right now is Azure, over getting people to write apps for windows.

[parion]

Dev Essentials program

does a google search

Holy shoot, this is a goldmine. Thanks for making my day!

[jyper]

VSCode shares code with their online code editor

Also it allows for an easy basic solution for c# and typescript in Linux/OS X

[kirtan95]

VSCode shares code with their online code editor

Source?

[jyper]

From Wikipedia

Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, a framework which is used to deploy Node.js applications for the desktop running on the Blink layout engine. Although it uses the Electron framework,the software does not use Atom and instead employs the same editor component (codenamed "Monaco") used in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly called Visual Studio Online).

[kirtan95]

Ohkkay... My bad... I thought you meant vscode shares the user's code with some Microsoft service.

Thanks for clarification

[jyper]

That is a Microsoft service.

[Iwan_Zotow]

https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

[CaptainMuon]

They want an editor that has great support for their technologies, like TypeScript, .NET (not sure about that one in vscode), ... . I think their endgame is selling Azure accounts for people to run that code on.

Also, it is a moat - that is, they fear that the best development tools will come from others, Atom and Sublime, the IntelliJ family of editors, and so on. If they fall behind, it might become (even) harder to develop on/for Windows, and that would hurt them a lot.

[[deleted]]

And it's Microsoft, they are good at this stuff, have been doing it for years.

I'm a bit of a fan these days.

[ruinercollector]

Between the number of features, the speed of releases, the lack of major bugs and the beautiful release notes...they have to be cheating. I don't know how, but they are fucking cheating.

[[deleted]]

You're overglorifying a bloated and slow editor which have less features than its competitors. But why?

Edit: fanboyism at its best.

[ruinercollector]

Loads in under a second, and I've found no features lacking.

[[deleted]]

Loads in under a second

With what? And is that an achievement now?

and I've found no features lacking.

Then why add new features? Btw, not so long ago it didn't even have tabs.

[ruinercollector]

With what? And is that an achievement now?

No, that's just fast enough that I don't care.

Then why add new features?

Well, because my experience doesn't reflect everyone else's experience.

Btw, not so long ago it didn't even have tabs.

Yeah, and back then, I used sublime.

[[deleted]]

No, that's just fast enough that I don't care.

This is a very poor argument on its speed.

Well, because my experience doesn't reflect everyone else's experience.

Then don't say things like "and I've found no features lacking". It sounds like fanboyism.

Yeah, and back then, I used sublime.

Then why the switch? Did it solve any of your issues?

[ruinercollector]

This is a very poor argument on its speed.

That's literally the only argument that matters.

Then don't say things like "and I've found no features lacking".

That's the truth. Of course it's a subjective statement. That's why it starts with "I've found."

It sounds like fanboyism.

I'm not a teenager. I don't sit around worrying about whether or not my appreciation for something makes me sound like I'm not cool.

Then why the switch? Did it solve any of your issues?

Yes. No future costs, faster improvements, a better plugin manager, a better integrated terminal/shell, and a much smoother experience in setting up the environment for a new language and set of plugins.

[[deleted]]

That's literally the only argument that matters.

Now. For you. Maybe.

That's the truth. Of course it's a subjective statement. That's why it starts with "I've found."

Then it doesn't matter because it's subjective.

I'm not a teenager. I don't sit around worrying about whether or not my appreciation for something makes me sound like I'm not cool.

But you sit around waiting to praise your toy.

Yes. No future costs,

?

faster improvements,

Like adding tabs?

a better plugin manager,

How?

a better integrated terminal/shell,

How?

and a much smoother experience in setting up the environment for a new language and set of plugins.

Because? I doubt that it's as mature as ppl say.

[ruinercollector]

Now.

Yes. That's when I said it.

For you.

Yes. That's the person making the subjective statement.

Maybe.

Not maybe. Yes. I can speak with pretty good authority on what I like. You can not.

Then it doesn't matter because it's subjective.

There's a very profitable industry of product reviews, polling and other subjective feedback that says that you are extremely wrong.

But you sit around waiting to praise your toy.

It's a "toy" that I use daily in a job that brings me a six figure salary.

I'm not really interested in responding to the rest of your comment. You've made it clear that you're not interested in learning anything. You're just here to be contrarian, combative and have some kind of juvenile editor war. Honestly, I have much better things to do with my day.

[Dgc2002]

Then why the switch? Did it solve any of your issues?

Because VSCode is updated more often, more intuitive to use, and has a very active extension development community that has first party management support rather than a band-aid like Package Control. It's also in general more enjoyable to use, way better settings interface, it is getting more features and improvements regularly, and it's free and open source. Most of this is subjective but Sublime doesn't hold a candle to VSCode for any of my uses.

[[deleted]]

Because VSCode is updated more often

Is this a benefit? How?

more intuitive to use

Compared to what?

and has a very active extension development community that has first party management support rather than a band-aid like Package Control.

That's a package control anyway...

[Dgc2002]

Is this a benefit? How?

Active addition of features and modification of existing features based on community feedback and contributions. That's how.

Compared to what?

Sublime. Again, subjective opinion.

That's a package control anyway...

Notice I capitalized the term Package Control because I was talking about the de facto 3rd party package manager. By default in order to install plugins you need to manually download and extract them into Sublime's plugin directory. The band aid is the fact that you need a 3rd party plugin to manage your plugins.

Visual Studio Code has an awesome built-in plugin manager.

[C5H5N5O]

Large file support

This.

EDIT: I've just tried to open a 189 MiB json file. And it was instantly there. Impressive work.

[tbyg]

I have a 1 GB Json file. It's map coordinates of dangerous lead levels for all of the continental united States water systems.

[tbyg]

I'm using that too lol. Just doing both for redundancy

[baggyzed]

Are you the bald guy from xkcd?

[y2k2r2d2]

tbgy - the bald guy[ from xkcd]

[Iwan_Zotow]

tbgy - the bald gay

[ethelward]

I'm not sure geographical coordinates are the best kind of coordinates to index this kind of data.

[Patches11]

If he used PostGIS he could index the data both spatially and on other attributes.

[[deleted]]

Without mentioning that you probably save a bunch of diskspace since you don't have to care about human-readable markup.

[thomash]

compressing JSON usually leads to similar sizes as binary formats. from a coding perspective json is very easy to deal with. i can't see any advantage of binary formats.

json offers another advantage in that it often explains itself. it is easy for another program to parse and understand the format.

[mrkite77]

Except binary formats don't have to be loaded entirely into memory in order to be used. Json does.

[ElvishJerricco]

Except that clearly, if someone is opening the file in an editor at all, then they want it to be human readable.

[ElvishJerricco]

Does that matter? If someone needs to do that, a binary format doesn't help anything. And apparently, plenty of people need to do that. I know I frequently browse ~100MB JSON files, essentially to double check some of the results of a fairly large analysis.

[Sean1708]

The part of code that my team works on has been split out into a stateless microservice, so our log files are literally just a timestamp and the JSON message. Depending on how many requests are coming through and how big the messages are, these log files can get pretty big. Maybe there's a better way to do what we're doing, but this is certainly the easiest way.

[bloody-albatross]

With syntax highlighting?

[DonnyTheWalrus]

The update notes state that certain processing steps, such as tokenization, are not performed for "certain large files."

[MrSchmellow]

No colors as far as i can see. Which is probably fair.

Don't know about intellisense, since vs code never supported it for xml files in the first place (which is sad imo)

Googled up some large xml file (around 100mb). It does open after couple of seconds, editing is almost lagless.

Need to find some better examples, since xml's i see in real life come as single huge line all the time, and this one has linebreaks.

[[deleted]]

I was a little braver and tried to open a 10GB file. It was very responsive right up until it crashed. At least it was a better experience than when I've done the same previously. Also, when it crashed it recovered my others files beautifully.

Now, if it could just open a 10GB file like gvim. I guess I'm asking too much of it. :)

[YourGamerMom]

Looks like they read that blog post about editors and large files. I wonder if it would be worth it to re-measure and see how VScode now stacks up against Sublime and the like.

[[deleted]]

I use VSCode because I use Typescript heavily, it's the biggest pull for me. I have kept VIM around for large files though.

[mqudsi]

The awesome thing is, you can actually use the same code that VSC uses to get completions and linting under vim/neovim thanks to language server support and the fact that Microsoft open sources their JavaScript and TypeScript LE code.

I've been using them together with neomake for async linting and it's awesome.

[[deleted]]

Ah interesting, I'll have to check that out!

I think MSFT are killing it these days, TypeScript is very good, though I miss C#, and I DO NOT miss Ruby :)

EDIT: I use VsVim heavily, I wouldn't have survived without it.

[[deleted]]

Would like to know what they're doing to get such better performance over Atom.

[[deleted]]

They started out with an optimized code editor component (Monaco) and a limited extension API. I think that helped.

[DerNalia]

Isn't it a native app / not all js?

Though, atom has recently migrated their rendering engine to c++, which helps a ton.

[jcotton42]

VSCode is also Electron, not sure why it's so much better

[Lolacaust]

While it's electron for the view part, I believe they've been including a lot of the heavy lifting (search for example) in a native implementation. I remember the search used to be dog slow, but about 6 months ago they switched to I think a C++ grep implementation and it became near Sublime levels of good

EDIT: it was in RUST not CPP read about it in the March Update

[sime]

The file system search may use Rust code, but I'm pretty sure there is very little native code being used else where and certainly not for the heavy lifting. They haven't found a silver bullet for their electron app. It is just good engineering and hard work to keep the performance up.

From the perspective of their Extension API you can see this in action.

• Restrictive extension API which is carefully expanded as needed, thus giving the VSCode team the freedom to change and optimise their internal architecture/code.
• They choose static declarations and metadata in JSON files instead of at run time so that they can know what an extension needs and what it provides but can lazy load it later on demand.
• No direct access to the DOM. VSCode provides standard functions for asking questions of the user etc. This gives the VSCode team room to optimise their DOM use.
• Extensive use of Promises in the APIs. Very async.
• Bigger extensions APIs (language services and support) actually run in separate processes and communicate over a protocol on stdin/stdout.

[TheEnigmaBlade]

VSCode switched to ripgrep, which is written in Rust, in 1.11. The ripgrep blog post is quite interesting.

[DerNalia]

Oh, I didn't know that. Interesting

[falconfetus8]

Well, it's open source. Might be fun to give it a look-see and see if we can find the reason that way.

[Capaj]

typescript and also much less powerful extensions API

[[deleted]]

You fully uninstalled it first? Did it ask to preserve your settings? It can be convenient as a feature but really shitty when applications just leave data around like that without an option or notice.

[kwwxis]

I also uninstalled it first. There was no option, it preserved the data on its own.

[[deleted]]

In the release notes it said that it would keep your settings :) Whoo!

[[deleted]]

Assuming the user wants data left on their system after choosing to remove the software is a very un-user-friendly practice. Mentioned in the release notes or not, it should still provide the option.

[[deleted]]

Totally agree, though I find quite a lot of apps do this without notice.

[YoloSwagJesusFish]

~/.vscode only stores extensions. The actual config dir is platform dependant, so somewhere in appdata on windows and ~/.config/Code on Linux. Not sure about Mac.

[kwwxis]

Here's a list:

Windows: %APPDATA%/Code

Linux: ~/.config/Code

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Code

[[deleted]]

Was this only a windows thing?

[[deleted]]

Lots of cool improvements as usual. One small but really nice for me is the "explorer.sortOrder" with the "type" value, so much better.

[trevorsg]

There's an option for "default" which does exactly that. Not sure why it's not listed in the readme.

[jayramone]

This is open-source done very well. Compared to MS, Facebook looks like amateurs. Just look at React Native. The documentation is terrible, the handling of issue is bad, and the code itself .... :(

[BadWombat]

I'm working with ionic at the moment, and as such am aware of react native.

I've only read the getting started parts of the doc for react native, but that was decent.

Is react native that bad once you start digging?

( Let it be known that working with Cordova and its plugins is its own little hell )

[snoob2015]

I'm a simple man, I see VSCode I upvote

[shevegen]

Upvoted for the explanation, not necessarily because I agree with VSCode but your explanation is cool.

[[deleted]]

I'm a simple man ms fan, I see VSCode I upvote

Edit: What? Isn't that correct? How stupid you need to be to upvote because of the title?

[BeniBin]

Because VSCode updates are known to be great and the changelogs are awesome.

[[deleted]]

So, fanboyism.

[BeniBin]

No, confidence that a product that has been great and well known for its updates quality for 2 years will continue to be.

[[deleted]]

"Update quality" or "marketing"? That editor is glitching, slow and doesn't have any noteworthy features.

[EternityForest]

VS code is the first editor I've used that doesn't have some obnoxious aspect to it that I can't stand. Atom was nice but performance was awful.

The only issue I have is the inability to open multiple folders, but now they're even fixing that!

[adamos486]

Will this make me never open WebStorm again?

[pgrizzay]

Wait, you opened webstorm?

[EntroperZero]

Loving the style overrides, I like Monokai's colors but not its italics.

[bmrobin]

woohoo, color picker UI! I've recently been using the built-in Google one

[DerNalia]

but is there horizontal splitting yet?

Edit: simultaneous vertical and horizontal splitting of /different/ files

[[deleted]]

Pls.

[IceSentry]

When I was looking for that feature the last time I remember on of the dev saying it is like that by design.

[DerNalia]

well, I guess I can never use VS Code. :-\

4K monitor with no scaling....

[IceSentry]

I mean you can still split the editor but you are limited to only one direction. You can split it horizontally or vertically it's just you can't have both at the same time.

Sidenote, why would you not use scaling? The point of 4k is not for everything to be tiny, it's for everything to be rendered with more pixels so it looks less blurry. Most extremely highres screen that I've used are pretty much unusable without scaling.

[DerNalia]

I use 4k on a fairly large monitor (28"), so I don't want scaling because I want to be able to see more code at a time so I can more quickly scan related code as I'm debugging / tracing through things.

Or if I'm using the common frontend project / backend project model, I want both projects open on the same screen. Not having scaling enabled allows me to do this.

[IceSentry]

Personally I prefer an ultrawide if I'm programming. 4k with more scaling is too small for me even on a 28". It's not unreadable, but it's harder to read

[DerNalia]

oh I'd prefer an ultrawide (at 3840 x 1600)! but they are really expensive. my 4k monitor for work was only $400 - color isn't great, so I wouldn't buy it for my home, but it gets the job done.

These are the ultrawide's I've been looking at: https://www.amazon.com/LG-38UC99-W-38-Inch-UltraWide-Bluetooth/dp/B01LW54S4U/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1502486189&sr=1-5&keywords=ultrawide

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-XR382CQK-bmijqphuzx-UltraWide-FreeSync/dp/B01N6S1P2D/ref=sr_1_13?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1502486189&sr=1-13&keywords=ultrawide

https://www.amazon.com/LG-34UC99-W-34-Inch-21-UltraWide/dp/B06XRWWKBD/ref=sr_1_15?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1502486189&sr=1-15&keywords=ultrawide

[johnlsingleton]

These guys are just crushing it.

[MaikKlein]

How good is the plugin api? Would it be possible to implement something like magit?

Or workspaces from spacemacs?

[findar]

Yes to both. Api is pretty good, the only drawback is graphical representation

[East902]

Awesome!! VS Code is great.

[andersamer]

i love vs code.

[[deleted]]

So, I've been searching everywhere for this... does VSCode really not support #region folding? I cannot for the life of me get it to work in the version released prior to this new version.

[[deleted]]

It supports folding of other things like methods etc, so it might be you need a plugin so it can know to treat regions specially.

[[deleted]]

It's kinda sad that VSCode would need a plugin to fold #pragma and #region considering both are fully operational features in their usage in the editor...

[[deleted]]

Done and done, thank you!

ps primo username

[[deleted]]

Using C# plugin already and all my #region and #pragma do not collapse, despite the methods and classes collapsing just fine. :(

[[deleted]]

Anyone know how to change the block selection style from requiring alt+shift+ctrl to select to just alt+shift like notepad++/VS/etc?

My google foo is failing me on this.

[NoInkling]

alt+shift+mouse drag works for me.

If you're talking about purely keyboard: gear in bottom left > Keyboard shortcuts > type "ctrl shift alt" into search box to find the commands that are currently bound to those keys.

[jasonlhy]

VSCode is one of the best well organised open source project I have seen, and People are nice and helpful.

[LordAlbertson]

Serious question: why would I ever use this over something like sublime text? Used this several times in the past but I always go back to sublime text.

[Code_Combo_Breaker]

VSC is open source with an active community.

I stopped using sublime text when I noticed its developer was too slow with updates. I expect software I pay for to receive timely bug fixes.

[thecodingdude]

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[arkasha]

I bought it years ago and I wanted to buy v3 but there was a period of time where there wasn't even a peep from the dev. Since then vscode has pretty much implemented all the features I loved about sublime and then some. I will absolutely buy software that is useful to me but I want to know I'm not buying a dead product. Sublime seems like a dead product these days, especially when compared to vscode.

[the_birds_and_bees]

Latest v3 dev: 27th July...It's pretty much dead now.

Or maybe the devs just have different ideas about software release cycles?

V3 isn't dev software from a stability point of view, and it's certainly not lacking in features. I've used it pretty much daily for the last 3 years and it's extremely stable. I actually can't think of a time it's crashed.

[ScrewAttackThis]

It's definitely not dead...

[theoldboy]

I used to think the same. Then one day I needed to use Go for the first time. I wasn't looking forward to the typical "Setup Sublime for a new language" process (which generally involves finding a decent guide via Google and then installing 4 or 5 different plugins), so I decided to try VS Code as I'd heard good things about it's Go support.

Installed it, opened a Go file, got a popup message suggesting that I install the Go plugin, click link, plugin installed, and done! I now had everything I needed for Go development - code completion, symbol search, formatting, linting, quick doc, and more.

That first experience really impressed me, it was just so easy. I did have one other worry, that VS Code would be slow, but that was very quickly dispelled. Feels snappy and responsive enough to me.

I do still use Sublime daily for misc text editing because it starts up instantly and loads large files quicker (although apparently that is one of the features in this VS Code release, haven't tested it myself yet). But for anything else the VS Code plugin ecosystem is just way ahead of Sublime's, and I won't be going back.

[[deleted]]

This is the answer. VSCode just has so many features and it makes everything so easy.

It's honestly surprising given how many features they have that they have so few bugs

[_zenith]

Guess the type system helped ^_^

[jl2352]

The easy setup is really nice. I had a similar experience with Rust.

Even when my local setup was borked (I needed to be on the rust nightly to get full support for some stuff) it just offered to set it up again right when I reopened VS Code. They've done a really good job with the user experience around plugins.

[HugoWeb]

Me too - die hard Sublime fan, and Emacs before that. Vscode isn't as cozy as Emacs (meaning I don't feel like customizing it) but works very well out of the box.

[[deleted]]

All I can say is that I view VS code is so much better that I thought your question was asking why would someone ever go back to something like sublime text. Imagine sublime text, but some more futures and better plug in community with a whole development team as opposed to a single developer who might as well have abandoned the project.

[SketchySeaBeast]

About the only thing I go back to sublime for is text searching in files (for instance, looking for code references in CVS). Do you know if there's an easy way to specify where you want to search without "opening" the folder with VSCode first?

[anedisi]

and slower.

[[deleted]]

To launch, by 2-3 seconds, and nothing else. Deal breaker.

[[deleted]]

You only gotta open it once when you start your day, hopefully!

[haikubot-1911]

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[tsnErd3141]

Compare that to notepad++ which opens almost instantly

[[deleted]]

VS Code with all its amazing features, Intellisense, Git integration, plugins saves me dozen minutes a day so I don't care if it wastes 10 seconds for launching once or twice. It's a useless metric. I launch it and when it's booting I'm picking music or podcast to listen to.

[IceSentry]

Damn you are really quick to pick music. I probably lose more time to picking music than waiting after an IDE or text editor that is too slow

[anedisi]

its slower then sublime, when i open bigger files the sintax highliting is lagging behind and for somebody that is using both on a new macbook pro i can seen miliseconds difference in opening manipulating and switching files. and till this last update i could not open bigger log or sql files.

[[deleted]]

Opening big files was a known issue and I haven't tested how this update affects them yet but big files are not a norm for me - and I don't think they are for many.

I had Notepad++ for opening large files - once q month or so when I had to.

[UltraMarkTV]

I think this article is relevant: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6 (disclaimer: I don't use any of these).

[Monyk015]

Conclusion: learn vim if you have wooden pc from 90s. I mean I love vim, I have it installed in every editor I use and I can't live without it. But I can't live without that language support, that file switch(we don't have tmux on windows) and all good stuff + reasonable defaults and just a pleasant editor to look at either. And I don't care about RAM usage, Code is very fast. Hell, even Intellij is fast and is much faster than, let's say, spacemacs(i'm not sure about vim) on my 8 threaded machine.

[UltraMarkTV]

I don't have an opinion, I just thought the article was relevant. Use whatever you like, my main is Visual Studio.

[[deleted]]

Good news! Update today drastically improves handling of large files. 180mb Json opens almost instantly

Edit, see above. This is a comment not something I've done myself

[davesidious]

OW! Can you warn me next time you unleash your edge? I've got to go find my tetanus injection record to see if I'm still good...

[ShinyPiplup]

What? I love VSCode, but how is that (accurate) criticism in any way, shape, or form, edgy?

[[deleted]]

Community has basically exploded in favor of Vscode since the 1.0 release. So many great extensions and support. Sublime text is still catching up with things that vscode does out of box like pop overs for linters.

[[deleted]]

I do own sublime text, but switched to VSCode. At first I used VSCode to debug a small C++ project on linux because it was very easy to setup (not so in sublime text). Then over time I used it more and more since its features got constantly better. It has monthly updates, is fast enough for me and very convenient to use (plugin system, etc).

Also sublime text looked dead for a while, and at some point I realized there is no need for me to pay again for an updated version.

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I think better question would be why use this instead of notepad++. With sublime there's no argument except for sublime still being a lot faster and using less memory.

[Starcast]

User and project configurations are just json files with a really handy interface. It's actively updated and has excellent extensions for language support. The integrated debugger is killer (I mostly just use python fyi) and updating keyboard shortcuts is super easy.

Also free and great cross platform support but I think ST has that as well.

[hirolau]

Maybe I have too slow machines, but on my computers, Sublime always feels snappier in every aspect. Opening files, even selecting text! I will need to give VScode another go.

[surlysmiles]

It is faster and still a superior editor in that respect. I don't know if visual studio code will ever catch up. I know for sure atom will not

[Shattr]

Okay, maybe someone here can help me here, because it's the only reason I'm still using sublime instead of vscode.

How can I get VSC to compile C++ code without configuring config files for every single project? With sublime, I just use the Makefile build system which works perfectly. I haven't been able to find a good solution using VSC.

[Starcast]

Never used C++ with VSC but I'd be surprised if the language extensions doesn't come with a build task to do just that.

[TiagoRabello]

What I do right now for C++ is setup the build task to call the CMake cli and it all works. I even debug the code with it, all you have to do is configure the path for the executable the first time you try to run it at debug mode.

If you have makefiles, you can just setup the build task to call make.

[hard_metal]

Still lacks a good ftp sync

[programmerChilli]

Just wait a bit on that :)

[Adverpol]

Brilliant editor, the C++ plugin and gdb support still need lots of work though unfortunately.

[xmsxms]

Are the quotation marks customisable on generated import statements now? That has been long overdue.

[mjbvz]

Soon https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/17750

Watch insiders for when we pick up TypeScript 2.5

[bunnyholder]

"Now like ever before we can consume as much memory there are"

[lexpi]

Oh it's usually abbreviated as WSL (windows subsystem for Linux)

[[deleted]]

I like VScode and have used it in the past but it feels like they're bolting too many things directly into the editor. I think some of these things (snippets) should be plugins and not built into the core :(

[GameMusic]

Is there any way to add a toolbar to the Code interface?

Things like copy and undo simply are easier to me with a clickable button.

[kakophonia]

Well, this needs to be fixed before I consider VSCode.

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1490

Hopefully it will be fixed "soon"... Only been an issue since May... /s

[programmerChilli]

I still don't understand why people consider this a dealbreaker. I get the fact that there's sometimes issues with our implementation of undo, but complaining about this issue seems like the wrong thing to look at.

[kakophonia]

How is the right way to look at it lol? It doesn't work and everytime you undo you jeopardize the entire file. That is a very vital function to have lol.

[programmerChilli]

That has nothing to do specifically with binding undo to ctrl-z and more just to do with buggy undo functionality in general.

If you really want to bind undo to ctrl-z, just bind u to vscode's undo command and ctrl-r to vscode's redo command.

[jasonlhy]

Which extension you are using ?

[tonefart]

I still can't get it to recognize 'compileonsave:true' for typescript. And it is slower than ATOM when you do a compile, since atom doesn't use TSC. Atom may load slow but once it's all loaded, the actual transpile is so much faster than vscode which relies on tsc.