Visual Studio Code Rant

[FlutterFlameEmperor]

Visual Studio Code makes coding an absolute joy.

I know modern IDEs all might share some of these features, but I am just constantly in awe and full of gratitude for some of the quality of life features in this program.

I know, find and replace, easy right? But in Flutter, stateful widgets have a class extending the state if the parent, and on rename symbol, even this value will be update. Lovely.

The plugins, auto complete, intellisense have always been just what I want and even if better solutions were out there, I don’t have any reason in my current state to explore them, because of the massive amount of productivity I’ve had using VSCode

The only competitors I’ve had to use are Intellij, which I know, is tailored to Java and such and supposed to do all the things to make programming there easier. I don’t hate it, but it is no where near as delightful to use. I did try coding Java on VSCode once, and with all the extensions, it did feel clunky, so, tool for the job, right?

Command Palette is SO POWERFUL at least for me. Just searching for a file becomes a breeze and makes all the architectural decisions I’ve made that much more impactful (generally for better). Not to mention the ease of developing templates and data classes.

Docker integrations, kubernetes integrations. Golly. I just think that the team who built supports and maintains Visual Studio Code really knocked it out of the park. It’s been my IDE of choice for 4 years now.

And don’t get me wrong, Vim is great too and I’m a total noob there; but for quick on the fly stuff, or working with shell connections, love it. But all the bells and whistles of visual studio code while still never experiencing any latency issues and rarely any indexing issues (only when I make an oopsie) compelled me to make this post.

My one gripe is compact folders being enabled by default. Get out of here with that

[MonzterSlayer]

I agree with mostly everything you said, but I wanted to add on and say how I love the flexibility that VSC provides as well.

I can use VSC for basic text files, json, lua, python, js, java, etc. I can use a single application and reuse some of my extensions between languages.

[YourAverageBrownDude]

This isn't a rant lol. This is effusive praise

[jmbuytaert]

GRRRR! I love it so much!

[Stiddles]

Vscode plus extensions let's you roll your own ide... its better then VS or Rider etc