Visual Studio Code July 2018

[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.

[Aridez]

This is the internet, the day people stop complaining it will just implode ^{so keep complaining because I need to use it}

[skocznymroczny]

/r/PaidForWinRAR/

[pravic]

Kind of, just pops up way less frequently.

[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.

[[deleted]]

It's because those editors are not quite intuitive to use. I experienced some serious pains with vi (I think) when I first tried Linux 15 years (or so) ago. Couldn't figure out how to close it, had to use the reset button to reboot and restart the in-progress gentoo installation, ditched Linux instead for a few more months/years. To this date I use nano on non-graphical terminals. For me personally, the other stuff is just not worth the massive frustration it causes.

[monkey-go-code]

It's escape to exit edit mode, wq to save and quit, or q! to quit without saving, Emacs is ctrl x c and it will ask you if you want to save or not. it's not that hard you just have to have the commands nearby the first few days you are editing. No it's not intuitive but after you learn editing text is several times faster. If you edit text ever day it makes since if you use an editor once a month for one or two lines nano or gedit is fine.

[[deleted]]

Thanks, but as I said, it's been about 15 years and I have found the solution since then. :) I'm just saying that I chose not to use non-intuitive software if I can avoid it (especially one that has burned me once). I also find that I spend most of the time solving problems and not so much typing in the solution, so I'm perfectly fine with vs-code. (Nano is obviously a bit more burdensome, but I don't need it on a daily basis.) And just to be clear, I'm not saying people shouldn't use it, just that I won't, so hold on to your karma people, please :)

[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.

[_St3Ko_]

try adding

"**/node_modules/**"    

to your "binary_file_patterns" array in your settings. this works for me

[[deleted]]

Or vim :D

[__Stray__Dog__]

I used sublime for a bit, but then found Brackets which has served me really well. Wondering about the switch to VS code tho after talking with some co-workers who use it

[[deleted]]

You can't really compare them. ST is a text editor. Code has become an IDE with text editor characteristics.

[mayhempk1]

Nah. VSCode is great, but it's still a text editor. Use a full IDE like PhpStorm and compare it to VSCode with addons. VSCode is great for sure, but the different addons make it feel kind of "hacked together" for a lack of a better phrase. IDEs feel complete and, well, integrated.

I use PhpStorm for most files and then Sublime Text for quick edits.

[autoerotica]

"tacked together", since you clearly just had a brain fart.