I'm used to IDEs (e.g. jetbrains ones)

visual studio code for web development (recommended tool with open in containers that somebody else set up in my team)

anybody have tips on how they pimped out VSCode to be closer to an IDE?

tip 1: just don't use it.

tip 2: seriously. just don't use it.

tip 3: you can't put lipstick on a pig, so just. don't. use. it.

vs code is garbage, and there's nothing you can do about it.

@tosensei putting lipstick on a pig is fun

@retoor everybody is entitled to their fetish. just don't let the kids see.

May I suggest eclipse instead? Works like a charm for me. Yes it is my fetishized IDE that actually works for me.

VS code is terrible, yet I still use it when I'm forced to touch the abomination of JavaScript.

But that's only because I'm just too used to visual studio and at least the muscle memory is still valid for VS code.

But yeah, don't be fooled, VS code is just the most plain and easily replaceable component of visual studio...

I LOOOVE VSCODE!! I use it for anything and everything, hell, I've even gone is far as creating code snippets because that's how often I used it. You can have your own key bindings if you're used to a particular editor, there're extensions for almost everything, themes, you can go to settings to make changes there to suit your needs. So it's really up to you how you want to configure it.

Once you install VS Code Pets, you'll never use another editor.

@retoor that's why you do it every day in front of the mirror?

Sorry, I had to because you walked straight into that one.

@electrineer funny. Bitch.

switch to VSCodium already.

I don't see a reason why you can't make it work with your IDE of choice. A team should enforce standard on the desired output but not on the tools.

VS code is fine until you need to mess with a shitload of plugins.
Jetbrains stuff is fast enough for me and seriously helps me be productive.

@ostream That is also largely a Windows memory reporting issue. For me it doesn't use that much memory however for what it needs to do I can see it might need to consume a lot of memory. It needs a map of all signatures of the entire codebase, stdlib and dependencies in order to assist and check everything instantly as you type.

I see the same with "o noo my browser is using a lot of memory" scare. Sure if it leaks it's a problem but if it uses memory to do it's shit faster that is actually a good thing.

Anyway never had any problems with memory on my 4GiB laptop running browser, jetbrains stuff multiple times until I had to go in some meeting with memory bleeding google meets on Firefox. Only fix was cgroups to limit the process.