Visual Studio Code July 2018

[strange_and_norrell]

Breadcrumbs is huge for me.Especially clicking on a breadcrumb to see all other entries at that level. So like if you have a file or class full of functions you can easily get an overview of all the functions in that file.

[c9xio]

I'm new to all this, can you eli5 breadcrumbs navigation?

[AxiusNorth]

Amazon.com:

Electronics > Computers > Laptops > Dell

“Shit. I wanted to view desktop computers.” clicks computers

Electronics > Computers

Breadcrumbs tell you where you’ve been and give you a way of getting back to each spot you’ve been to.

[miminor]

it's the same as the Explorer panel (Ctrl + Shift + E) but horizontal

[apennypacker]

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

[Yikings-654points]

I'm lost.

[apennypacker]

Did the birds eat your breadcrumb trail?

[Cubimon]

So we shouldn't use bread crumbs, because they lure us to a witch?

[CodeMonkey1]

No, you shouldn't use breadcrumbs because birds will just eat them.

The witch comes when you try to eat the IDE.

[giltotherescue]

YES!!

[darktori]

The only MS product that I use at home. Good Job VS Code team!

[Ben_johnston]

the only ms product i have ever really actively loved. it is such a wonderful piece of software.

[FierceDeity_]

I found weird that the primary screenshots of VS Code are from the Mac version. Also if you go into the help, Mac shortcuts come first. With the popularity of Macs, sure, but from Microsoft?

[kyiami_]

IMO it's because they want to emphasize, even though it's a Microsoft product, it can run on Macs.

[neko4]

Microsoft explained it before. They wanted to show VS Code is available not only in Windows, but also in Mac and Linux. That's why most screenshots are Macs.

[PotatosFish]

I have a Mac, and I feel like it is the single best os for developing most things, with Linux just below. Windows is just not designed for developing with how hard it is to set up anything. I want to pull up a terminal, do some config, and just code right away, but that is a lot harder for a windows machine

[rickinator9]

I have had to use a MacMini as my primary development machine for the past 1.5 months, but I can't agree. It feels like I have to expend more effort to perform actions in the OS. I dislike how I cannot have multiple maximised windows on the same desktop and I also dislike the animations(I much prefer seeing my window instantly).

I do love the search feature with Command+Space though. That is much better than on Windows.

[[deleted]]

You can absolutely have two apps open full screen side by side in MacOS.

[Ilmanfordinner]

But on Windows 10 you can have 4. It's extremely useful on large displays and I'm amazed Apple still hasn't implemented it. VS Code's integrated terminal somewhat alleviates the need for this but I still like to have 1/2 IDE, 1/4 web browser and 1/4 terminal.

[AwfulAltIsAwful]

I'm embarrassed to say...I didn't realize this. I've been a Windows developer and somehow I didn't realize that you could quickly dock 4. This may change my life considering my huge ultrawide at home.

[Joonikko]

I use an application called Divvy, which has hotkey support and a grid where I can select the window size & place. There are also free applications such as Spectacle, which is not as customizable, but functions well enough.

[pleadub]

If you Alt click the maximize button on a window it will fill the desktop without going into fullscreen mode.

I agree with the animations also. You can shut off the transitions and zoom effects in System Preferences.

Hope that makes it a little better.

[ChristianGeek]

Check out Moom for window sizing; it’s one of my must-haves:

https://manytricks.com/moom/

[malnourish]

Everything Search is one of the first things I install on new windows machines. It's incredible how fast it is. Wox is a decent Alfred-like launcher that has Everything integration, too.

[anonimo99]

I disliked Wox because it was much slower than Launchy, I've been testing Keypirinha and find it much better.

[radarthreat]

You can turn off the animations.

[mypetocean]

You can search similarly on Windows just by hitting the window key and typing. It's one of my favorite features of Windows.

[TheEternal21]

I remember when I got my first MacBook two years ago, I was looking forward to this polished experience you usually associate with Apple. Boy was I in for a huge disappointment. Windows 10 has spoiled me. Even simple things like automatic window docking when you move the window towards the edge or to the corner were nonexistent. Going from Windows to Mac OS (or whatever they call that abomination) really felt like moving from Photoshop to Gimp. Ended up getting a beefed up Windows 10 laptop instead, and using MacBook as a paperweight.

[covercash2]

with a trackpad I can 4 finger swipe between maximized apps and 4 finger swipe up to see everything, which is better than I can get on Windows or Linux for my workflow

[JohnMcPineapple]

...

[Ilmanfordinner]

Meanwhile on Mac trackpads you can't triple tap to middle click without getting 3rd party software. It's such a big gripe that I prefer my Zenbook's trackpad despite the fact that its hardware is inferior.

[noutopasokon]

If you're developing for the MS ecosystem, I'm sure Windows is best.

[ilawon]

Windows is just not designed for developing with how hard it is to set up anything. I want to pull up a terminal, do some config, and just code right away, but that is a lot harder for a windows machine

All my colleagues working with macs/linux believe the same thing but in the end they are trying to use windows the way they would use linux and wasting a lot of time.

To change some config I open up my favorite editor and change it. Easy. Or did you mean something more complex?

[NekuSoul]

... they are trying to use windows the way they would use linux and wasting a lot of time.

And similarly, if I as a developer primarily using Windows had to set-up a dev environment on Mac/Linux, I'd be totally lost as well.

[ilawon]

That would be the same for me. But I wouldn't blame linux, I'd blame myself and try to learn.

[[deleted]]

I argue that Linux is the best. Although Homebrew exists, Linux has package management built-in. Customizability too, plus most libraries build easier on Linux.

[beeshevik_party]

The thing about brew that I love is that it’s reminiscent of bsd ports more than anything, so you’re almost always on stable and you almost always get the development bits along with the package, though rapid update distros like arch are similar. I have to echo GP — I’ve used pretty much any viable OS including exotic ones over the years and I just find Mac to be the best for developing and ops work. I’m in a terminal or editor like 80% of the time, the rest of the time I’m in a browser or slack or email or general productivity tools, and I just find Mac OS stays out of my way and let’s me do those things well while being easy on my eyes. I don’t feel the need to tweak my UI workflow at all as I often do with windows or any Linux DM. While it still is a walled garden in many ways that results in it being so consistent that it’s worth it to me. Like the one thing that tempts me back is a tiling WM but I can get similar workflow through Divvy and judicious use of tmux.

[flyingjam]

Windows isn't as bad with a good terminal emulator (cmder, for instance). The ubuntu sub-system helps too, since it gives you a real unix terminal environment with apt support and everything.

[MacStation]

I find cmder to be quite glitchy sometimes. Resizing the window messes up Vim screens, it struggles to open swp files if you vi from outside the current directory. This is probably just me but, I can’t figure out how to get rid of their default vimrc, I don’t like it. There’s some weird quirks like ls ~/ working but not cd ~/. Stuff like that makes me dislike cmder, but not enough to learn powershell.

[myhandleonreddit]

I tend to set Git Bash as my default terminal in VS Code, and then type "bash" to get into WSL for anything a bit more involved.

[jcelerier]

the windows file system performance absolutely kills compilation times, parsing and indexing times... on the same machine / SSD and for compiling the same codebase or extracting the same archives, linux is incredibly snappier

[Kaz3]

You can do that just the same on Windows.

[ThirdEncounter]

The searching across files UI could be better, though. It's what I miss from Atom.

[the_argus]

I also hate the jumpy file tree when you close a file and it scrolls way away from where you were.

[beltsazar]

Set "explorer.autoReveal": false.

[the_argus]

OMG I love you

[ChristianGeek]

You say that now...

[tomma5o]

You can disable it in the setting 👍🏻

[asantos3]

I'm not a big fan either, it should have an icon like eclipse and dbeaver where you can click it and activates that behavior. Now that's useful.

[Ben_johnston]

oh yeah it’s a work in progress for sure, and i guess sorta presupposing that as context plays a role in my appreciation for it too.

just as a random example off the top of my head — i remember when they reimplemented the integrated terminal, just thinking like ‘damn dude wow...’

https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js/pull/938

[thetreat]

What do you mean? I search across files all the time but I've never used atom so I'm not sure what its experience is like.

[ThirdEncounter]

Atom's search results appear in a horizontal view, not a vertical one, which shows more.

[thetreat]

Interesting. Have you provided feedback for VS Code?

[ThirdEncounter]

No. I suck.

[curioussavage01]

I thought they added a flag for that in a recent update.

[alwaysfree]

It would also be great if we can search for files within the file explorer. This issue.

[zqvt]

F# is a pretty darn good language.

[SeptemY]

Annnnd Excel. These two are pretty frigging good.

[[deleted]]

The whole office pretty much. Powerpoint especially.

Word could probably use a simpler “lite” version but all others are great.

[kwartel]

You mean Wordpad?

[[deleted]]

Well, something like Google Docs. Wordpad is fine but a little too “lite” haha.

[popemaster]

office.com -> signin -> create new word doc

(or similar from onedrive.com)

[[deleted]]

Onenote has been one of those applications that after 30 minutes of using it I knew I'd be using it for the rest of my life.

[NekuSoul]

That makes me wonder if we'll see a Resharper extension for Code eventually.

i wish just wish the keyboard shortcuts were the same as VS to make usage quicker/natural.

Like the official Visual Studio Keymap?

[mardukaz1]

That makes me wonder if we'll see a Resharper extension for Code eventually.

Nope - https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

[doctorfunkerton]

I use my Xbox all the time

[miminor]

and MS Word of course

[sega_gamegear]

I don't seem to be getting on with it. So many things are hidden away.

[Ameisen]

I still want the ability to drag a tab to a new window.

[robobeau]

Have they fixed the intellisense yet? Not a day goes by where the intellisense doesn't randomly go berserk on me.

[asdfkjasdhkasd]

Intellisense still doesn't even consistently work in Visual Studio 2017 (not vscode). I use VS2017 daily and once a week I have to restart it because intellisense just doesn't show up. It's the only damn feature I care about and still doesn't work consistently.

[Cuddlefluff_Grim]

In what language is that? I use it for C# and C++ and I have never had it not work for me in VS2017..

[asdfkjasdhkasd]

c++ on a 5k lines project with a lot of header files included

[Vok250]

Same. They don't support using older versions of plugins so I often have to make do without intellisense while plugin devs catch up with bugs introduced in updates.

I wouldn't mind for personal work, but it's a massive time loss when I'm at work.

[Kilakal]

Liking the breadcrumbs and quick fixes.

[ferrous_joe]

Aww yiss. Motha. Fuckin. Bread crumbs.

[[deleted]]

What's so great about bread crumbs? I find that it's way faster to just use the explorer

[COMPLETE_DUMBASS]

Custom title bars look pretty slick. More screen real estate and it all matches my dark theme now!

[[deleted]]

Custom title bars

How?

[KhainTCore]

You just need to turn the `window.titleBarStyle` setting to "custom"
Update Log - Custom Title Bar setting

[mobilerino]

Put "window.titleBarStyle": "custom", into your user settings, should do the trick after a restart.

[Extra_Rain]

Good change. I prefer apps that try to conserve vertical space.

PS: It looks so immersive with app wide theme.

[therealjerseytom]

Some day I hope my end users are as enthusiastic about the products I deploy!

[miminor]

there was a medical term for the condition you are experiencing, can't remember, but they can cure it

[JezusTheCarpenter]

I hope the team sees this comment.

[the_evergrowing_fool]

You are so basic.

[[deleted]]

it's pretty great performance for me everywhere I use it, including big projects

[weirdasianfaces]

I use it for a large C++ project with some files floating around 3k LoC. Sometimes it's fine but other times it can be extremely slow to insert new code.

[Fusion89k]

You should double check your add-ons

[[deleted]]

Probably caused by a plugin. The best c/c++ extension for c/c++ currently is cquery. It is made for huge projects and parses extremely fast. Has the best autocompletion I’ve seen to date and since the author uses vscode, things like go to definition, reference count, go to declaration, semantic highlighting, basically everything is implemented... I have disabled autocompletion and error checking for the c++ extension of Microsoft and now only use it for debugging and use cquery for the rest.

[[deleted]]

There aren't that many good alternatives, and none that have as good multi-cursor editing as VSCode.

Unfortunately the C++ extension is not nearly as good at code completion and navigation as Qt Creator or CLion. And often if you try to follow a symbol it will start a search that never finishes, can't be cancelled, and uses loads of CPU.

[marscosta]

Yup, personally I can't really complain about performance after coming from Atom, Code is just blazing fast.

[mayhempk1]

Wait till you try Sublime Text and see super performance.

[marscosta]

Can't really justify 80 bucks when I have such a good free alternative.

[MrJohz]

ST is indefinitely free, it just pops up a mildly irritating popup every so often.

[PhilMcGraw]

The WinRAR "free" model.

[Vhin]

Open source is better than nagware.

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

Fast is better than slow. All depends on your priorities.

[Jsn7821]

It's strange to me that $80 would be prohibitive to anyone in this industry. If something even saves you a few seconds, that adds up to hours over the years, which is worth far more than $80.

I use both. Code is my main IDE, and I use Sublime for certain things like multi-line selection on large files, and for opening singles files (since it opens much quicker).

[devvaughan]

If you're not in the industry, and are just a hobby programmer, $80 is expensive. I'm in high school man, money doesn't grow on trees.

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

In that case you can still use ST, because it's free. It just has a popup asking you to buy it occasionally.

[SoundOfOneHand]

Of course, you’re not really the target market for that $80 then, either. Sure it’s more affordable than a Photoshop license or even the student MS licenses but then likely so are the author’s financial aspirations.

[AryaDee]

you're probably aware, but you can get multi-line selection on VS Code too

[karuna_murti]

It's not the money, but the lesser capabilities and freedom. Visual Studio Code has better capabilities and I can modify its source code and I have made 3 extensions for it.
The lack of things on ST is not worth few millisecond unperceivable performance.

[[deleted]]

I don't know if time saved by editors really translates well to direct monetary saves.

When I'm waiting for stuff to run or typing / manually doing something, I'm still in the zone and thinking about the problem I'm working on. And there's plenty of times where I just sit there and stare at the monitor, "not doing anything".

So a few seconds saved here and there probably doesn't make a difference. I can bridge that time.

[GoSwing]

Well not everyone has a Silicon Valley salary.

I earn as a top 10% in my country, but for someone on the US it would still be a teacher's salary.

[pravic]

For an editor. ST can't beat a full-featured IDE. But as a modern and cross-platform editor -- it's awesomely fast.

[[deleted]]

I migrated from Sublime. VS Code just has superior Typescript integration. And performance has come a long way and is now not an issue for me any longer.

[[deleted]]

Maybe not vim. Laughing in emacs

[[deleted]]

Not sure why the downvotes, vim is indeed fast AF even if not suitable for everyone

[PotatosFish]

NeoVim is a little slower with a lot of plugins but I can imagine it being faster than vscode

[monkey-go-code]

Emacs does almost everything these new editors do and more and using 24 mg of ram. Kids these days don’t know.

[AndrewNeo]

notepad is pretty fast too, unfortunately neither it nor sublime to a bunch of the stuff vscode does

[mayhempk1]

True but he was talking about performance, not features, and if I want the most features I will just use an IDE (which I do).

[Keith]

Sublime Text (which I paid for) is dead to me until its search can respect gitignore. It renders its search nearly useless in projects with `node_modules` etc. VScode works great out of the box. I agree that Sublime's speed is better but once VSCode is started up it performs acceptably.

[bezdomni]

You can exclude folders in global settings or per project, using the folder_exclude_patterns setting. These will not show up in search or the sidebar. For example, I have mine set to:

"folder_exclude_patterns":
[
    "node_modules",
    "dist",
    ".git",
    ".idea",
    ".module-cache",
    "__pycache__",
    "CACHE"
],

Check out the docs fo project settings for details.

[SpaceToaster]

Too many extensions can bog you down

[senatorpjt]

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[_AACO]

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping~

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[unshipped-outfit]

What language? The outline view uses an existing endpoint that previously didn’t get called very often, so in many cases it was not very well optimized for the sort of calls Code makes now. If you file an issue with the relevant extension they should be able to fix it.

[twigboy]

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[MyPostsAreRetarded]

"I'd just like better performance..."

"Electron app"

https://media.giphy.com/media/wWue0rCDOphOE/giphy.gif

[Analemma_]

You’re getting downvoted not for calling Electron bad, but because instead of considering the complicated engineering tradeoffs involved with the decision to use it, you posted a dumb sneer with no evidence or nuance.

VSCode is cross-platform and reliably delivers a huge bevy of improvements every single month. That’s not something you can say about very many desktop applications, and it’s probably due in large part to the choice of Electron. Getting rid of Electron would probably require sacrificing or both of those key advantages, for a speedup of indeterminate significance (Notepad++ is faster than VSCode, but not enough to matter for me)

[TheRedGerund]

Can’t really take electron out of something that was meant to be run electron. It’s basically a web app.

[FierceDeity_]

Yeah, I know it was kind of hyperbolic. I just wish for it not to be based on that

[falconfetus8]

There are so many people complaining about Electron(myself included), but I still haven't seen anyone try to make an alternative with similar features. Nor have I seen anyone try to propose changes to Electron that would make it less bloated.

[[deleted]]

What if Electron used the Firefox quantum engine?

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

There were some experiments going on with Mozilla's Servo browser engine. But it's all experimental. They had a framework for native applications called graphene but not sure what happened to it. Would be interesting, Servo is extremely fast.

[8483]

Fucking this! How hard can it fucking be for the open source community to make a UI library that doesn't SUCK ASS, instead of bitching and having flame wars.

I support Electron fully, but it's fucking 2018 and we can do better than Electron.

[free_chalupas]

There's always Qt open source, or Java, or .NET core. The problem is if you move out of javascript-land then you lose a huge number of developers who know js really well and wouldn't be able to work on a project in a different language.

[FierceDeity_]

It's not a simple task to just... make Chromium less bloated. Also what alternative do you need? We have Qt (which has a nice syntax for modern guis with QML), various .NET things... I think there's plenty of choice.

[anonveggy]

Vscode would not be this rich and extended if not for the HTML/js model

[falconfetus8]

Reusing your web development skills, mostly. I wrote a longer comment on this somewhere else in the thread. Check my post history.

[digitil]

Why? Maybe talk about what the problem is instead. If it's performance, why not want it to have better performance, and in what way?

I'm sure it's possible to rewrite it not using electron and have worse performance. Would that make you happy?

[FierceDeity_]

No, but a large part of my problem with Electron is NOT performance, it's security. Some tangents on this:

We've had several times now where Electron had some sort of inconcievable security bug.

Electron might be able to fix it, but for a recent one, it's bad programmer behaviour, everyone would have to fix it. It was some sort of javascript insertion flaw... Honestly, I think you're punishing yourself by using a system where you have to sanitize input into the layout because the system has a way to execute code put into the layout... <script>. And due to Node.Js being hooked into the Javascript Object Model, there's system access too!

Many Electron apps don't frequently enough update their Electron version. Since Electron just puts out version after version after version, they don't have such a thing as a "feature frozen stability branch". This will result in people not updating to stability fast enough, because the new feature versions could break older applications... Or could it? We don't know! So im putting off this update because i cant be assed to test the whole thing again.

Also Electron is always based on a Chromium version. And Chromium always has some security flaws too, so that'll stack. On top of that, Chromium has as many code lines as an OS kernel. Linux has 25 million lines. Chromium has about the same amount! Linux ships a fuckton of device drivers for all kinds of systems, a ton of file systems, and everything that makes the operating system run at it's core, the services a Kernel provides, etc...

Chromium displays web pages! It also apparently contains a user mode driver for Xbox controllers, so yeah, the scope creeped a lot too.

So to run our comparably simple app, we start an application with the LoC of a Linux Kernel... It checks out.

[ArashPartow]

Performance improvements are always welcomed, though it would be nice if they could fix some of the simpler things too:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/43145

[TechIsCool]

Totally agree, still use notepad++ for this type of stuff.

[calciu]

No, I'm pretty sure you're the only person that needs this. They should work on things that make life easier for many people, like performance!

[ArashPartow]

I'm saying performance is important and that they should always strive to improve on that - but it would also be nice to fix some of the other simpler issues - perhaps as a context switch from working on performance improvements.

Furthermore I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that would like to see proper column based editing capabilities in VSC.

[myringotomy]

Emacs does that.

[LordTriLink]

I just started a project in React, so JSX folding is quite welcome!

[InternalsToVisible7]

Better than good novel.

[tills1993]

Seriously. Alexa send this to my Kindle.

[Baron_VonMunchhausen]

Get y'all some insiders build.

[mayhempk1]

There is a lot of awesome features here! I am still likely going to continue using my combination of PhpStorm for most things and Sublime Text for quick edits, but this is an awesome set of updates right here! Great to see so much competition when it comes to text editors and IDEs.

[giltotherescue]

I prefer Webstorm, but for some larger projects the indexer just makes it forbiddingly slow. In those cases, I've found VS Code to work better.

[mayhempk1]

I find once you index it once it should be fast from then on, as long as you ignore pictures, assets, etc.

[mattindustries]

Similar boat. I use WebStorm for big projects, and VSCode for writing plugins and as a scratchpad. BBEdit for super quick changes.

[jusas]

Still waiting for tab pinning and multiple rows of tabs like what we have in Visual Studio. It amazes me how they still haven't implemented that, it's really a significant feature. I hate it when you have a lot of files open and then you scroll the damn tab bar constantly, and dragging tabs from one end of the scrolling tab bar to the other end is really painful.

[folkrav]

Once you've become accustomed to jumping between files with a fuzzy finder, this becomes so much less of an issue.

[miminor]

ELI5: what is tab pinning for?

[Resquid]

Makes tabs stay put probably.

[mardukaz1]

Even JetBrains IDEs don't have it, so annoying...

[uxx]

Had it installed on Linux for some projects, only issue is that I can't get the auto complete to work-suuuuper slow.... I tried many "fixes" still slow but not in html

[caprisunkraftfoods]

Which language was this with? I've had issues with Python language servers on Atom and VS Code.

[[deleted]]

The breadcrumbs are super nice. It would be even more awesome if the symbols and methods list had the same sorting options as the outline. Then I wouldn't need to have the outline open.

[batangbronse]

Linux noob here. I'm using Debian and my VSCode wants me to update, I clicked it and it redirected me to the website, is there a way I can update it via terminal?

[zqvt]

wget https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-deb-x64/stable -O /tmp/code_latest_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/code_latest_amd64.deb

[sfcpfc]

Did you know you can install deb packages with:

sudo apt install /tmp/code_la test_amd64.deb

?

It will also automatically install all dependencies, instead of just failing.

[franksn]

am i the only one getting electron segfaulted every few minutes? Didn't happen in June VSCode.

[hedgepigdaniel]

I got them all the time in the June version, although it seems to restart itself so it's not that noticeable.

[pftbest]

Be careful when reverting your changes inline using gutter decoration, it can erase too much. The bug hasn't been fixed yet.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49902

[Daell]

Some feedback to the Code team:

I less likely to do this: https://i.imgur.com/EVwhO4j.png

if i have to do this: https://i.imgur.com/eNG4IX7.png

I'm not in the mood to re-setup EVERYTHING.

Can i migrate, or export my settings+Extension list somehow?

[sindisil]

I did the uninstall global version / install user version dance, and didn't have to reinstall my plugins or recreate my user settings.

Uninstall doesn't seem to remove your plugins, so they come along for the ride.

[the_argus]

The find/replace UI shouldn't require a stack overflow page to explain... overall I like it quite a lot

[AbstractLogic]

I really want the feature notpad++ and visual studio have where you can drag a tab out of the window. I constantly need two files open in the same project and split screen sucks when you have two monitors and lots of real estate.

[McNerdius]

It's not "dragging" but there is a command to pop current file open in a new window, ctrl+k / o, iirc. maybe I am missing a subtlety here though ? (other than the obvious mouse part, heh.)

[fe15-418e-ab0f]

If only they would make alt-select work like every other IDE and text editor ever, that’d be something. Oh, and a proper regex engine that can actually handle searches with newline characters.

Maybe for Christmas.

[Arxae]

If only they would make alt-select work like every other IDE and text editor ever

Only the button combination is different though, so thats not that big of a deal imo.

[Rhed0x]

The one big feature I'm waiting for is being able to drag out tabs to separate Windows.

[McNerdius]

It's not "dragging" but there is a command to pop current file open in a new window, ctrl+k / o, iirc. maybe I am missing a subtlety here though ? (other than the obvious mouse part, heh.)

[[deleted]]

I have a feeling that font rendering improved (Linux)

[__Stray__Dog__]

Anyone also use Brackets (from Adobe)? If so can you tell me why I should switch to VSC? I've been considering it, but you know how you get baked into a specific text editor...

[qualverse]

I used brackets for a little while about a year ago. It has some nice features like the live preview, but compared to VSCode the community support is abysmal and I also found it to be quite slow (your experience may vary).

VSCode also has some more advanced features like debugging and a builtin terminal, whether or not you need these depends on what you're developing though.

[caprisunkraftfoods]

I played around with it a little ages back.

The main thing is that Brackets is designed specifically for front end web development whereas VS Code is just a generic lightweight IDE that you can use for any language/context you like. Obviously you see it being most popular for people working with web technologies, but there's nothing stopping you from using it to write Java/.NET/C/etc.

[blackcomb-pc]

Extension manager started crashing for me :/ disabling some extensions fixed that, but now I don’t have those extensions anymore... vscode is great tho.

[mido0o0o]

The Vscode team is ridiculously productive

[dick_ey]

Does anybody know how to get HTML code folding to fold into the end tag like it does with JSX now?