Have we all been brainwashed to use VS Code? Is there anyone who doesn’t like it? Everywhere I go it’s “you should use VS Code because ‘plugins’ and you don’t have to switch windows when using Terminal. And, we’re moving our toolchain to work with it.”

Well, it sounds to me like you’re trying to hack a Visual Studio IDE on a non-Windows platform, but I digress…

I was going to return to Atom the other day when I discovered that project died near 6 months ago. I’m sad.

@bigmonsterlover Wow, I didn’t know about Pulsar - I’ll check it out!

I like Vim too, btw.

I use Codium rather than pure VS Code, do I count among to brainwashed? :(

I mean, It's a good and responsive IDE, cross platform, lightweight, easy on the eyes, customisable... It's pretty much the same thing as Atom afaik, except for the spyware, which Codium solves

vs code is like visual studio, only even more awful and incomplete. i dislike it immensely.

i use vs code, but just as a text editor - as it is advertised as this. and it's good for editing text imho.

@Hazarth I’ll look into that option too.

@nebula for editing text, i prefer notepad++

You can always use eclipse :)

@NickyBones Oh no you didn’t just say that 😩

@BinaryRage I'm just saying there are worse things out there than VS Code. And when I worked for GM, they chose Eclipse as their Linux IDE.

I thought everyone lives idea as much as i do.

@NickyBones Somebody tried to make me use Eclipse too. I hated them just a little.

I don't think plugins is the primary reason.

I see just as many people using vsCode pretty much out of the box without messing with it

This isn't like some software that "sucks out of the box but you can make it good with plugins". Maybe in some cases, but not all.

and if some GNU fan would complain you gotta install plugins for some languages - I wouldn't really get the complaint. isn't extensible software something appreciated?

I use vs code + intellij idea + sublime text combo. Vs code for js and html stuff, idea for java and kotlin, sublime text for quick text edit and mostly notes about stuff. I like extensiblity of vs code. It works quite nice with js stuff like snippets, linting, debugging etc. Tried atom few years ago and couldn't find any reason to migrate to it. Sublime comes in handy with small memory footprint and auto saving tabs feature withouth manually saving to a file. I use it as a temporary text board that can be 1 hour or 1 week. No one told me to "yo dude you should use vs code" so I don't think I'm brainwashed lol

VS Code sucks. It's intellisense is incredibly inferior to jetbrains products. Too bad sometimes we are stuck with it.

Yeah... When intellisense sucks, I would rather use lighter editor such as Atom.

To each his own, I guess. I'm not a developer, but I use VSCode because I do a lot of sysadmin work. Python, Docker, Google Cloud, Github, etc and for the majority of my work, VSCode has support for it. For simple file edits, vim is still my go-to.

After some time with DataGrip initially, and then Rider, I've become a total JetBrains fanboy... Now I use Rider for almost everything, front end to back end, and Notepad++ for the most basic text editing.

(I even love their font, I enabled ligatures and set everything to use it long before I started using any of their paid products)

I don't see the attraction personally. It certainly isn't bad, and I have it installed and will use it in a few circumstances, but I would be unhappy if it was all I had to use or was forced to use it. I'm an IntelliJ guy regardless of what technology I'm using at the time (Ultimate covers all the bases extremely well). And, for times when I just need a pure text editor, nothing beats UltraEdit.

I don't hate VSC, but it's definitely not my first choice.

I'm still at Visual StudioIDE (2022) + resharper.

I even did just a bit of poython in VS 2022. To my surprise everything (Including debug) worked

Have we all been brainwashed to use cancer? Is there anyone who doesn't like it?