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Awlex
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Visual studio code

I usually use IDEs and am in love with everything made by Jetbrains. I am also to lazy to setup dual boot on my pc, so I live with windows 10. After one of the recent downgrades Microsoft distribute, they shipped this lightweight text editor called visual studio code with it.

It lied to me, that it's a good editor for coding C. It even tells me that I can compile and execute the code from inside the editor, similar to vim. I went to the settings and found a dark theme, for the best best feature this "editor"has to offer.

I give it a try by opening a source file with a normal double click. Editor gets focused, but the code is nowhere to be seen. Retrying conforms my, that this piece of shit is literally not able to open files UNLESS you drag and drop them into the editor. HOW FUCKING USELESS IS THAT?

Next I want to compile the program. Guess what, that functionality was not given or at least I could not find it (same goes with the manual)

Even with dark theme it burns my eyes to use this editor. There are almost no useful shortcuts. The functionality is not even comparable to vim. I always thought eclipse was bad, until this shit was installed.

It might work well for other people. Maybe it has functions, that just don't work on my pc, but from what I've seen: visual studio in general and especially that editor feels like Microsoft trying to replace the toolet paper with sandpaper.

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  • 2
    The most disliked I've ever seen VSCode. That's worth something at least
  • 0
    I like it for C# and React though never devug just run, if I want serious shit I go with a full IDE like visual studio
  • 3
    VSCode comes with the "ability to compile"* because you can access cmd and powershell from within the editor (Ctrl + `)

    It's a very powerful and fast editor, but yeah, mostly for web development I would say. I've never had the problems you were talking about, I can open files and entire folders just fine. I love VS Code and it's my NodeJS editor for sure.
  • 0
    The only valid reason to be lazy to setup dual boot is UEFI.
    And I think your confusing editor and IDE.
  • 2
    it's great for node stuff .. IMO
  • 1
    if you're too lazy to setup dual-boot, just get rid of fucking Windows and install only a badass Linux distro
  • 0
    @Walz I'm not confusing IDEs and editors.
    I gave this texteditor a try. I hoped it had this one function you commonly find in IDEs, I was betrayed. I compared it with vim, which has a build-in command for make. I was disappointed by the usability. FIN

    I can't deny that you're right about my laziness, but I'm searching for a old external harddrive to and make it a Bootable with a nice linux distro.
  • 0
    @Awlex FYI if you meant a built in command, you need to make a custom task in debug else you're stuck with Terminal in Quick Access panel.

    It's nowhere near and IDE, you should know that. Also it provides some good C/C++ coverage fine, I think you forgot to install and le olde good C/C++ Extensions
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