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VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
That seems odd to me. I basically never close my IDE. Sure, I might put the laptop to sleep in between or disconnect from the remote desktop server, but I rarely need the 500 MB that my IDE consumes, so there's little point in every closing it.
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I believe Settings Sync is going to be included in the next release of VS Code. Yay! The amount of work Microsoft is putting in this editor is amazing. Last month we got file history, that was the last thing I needed to ditch the Git GUI I had installed.
I use vscode but it's missing some basic code features for me. The biggest for me is probably keyboard macros, something that's been a basic feature of editors since at least the 80s. Keyboard macros in other editors has saved me 100s of hours. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
+1 for VSCode for its configuration portability plugin, settings sync. It’s never been so easy to sync editor changes across my machines, and I’ve only had 1 dependency issue using it in 4 years. No longer having to maintain my vim config and dependencies has been great.
Lately, I'd add the remote ssh and wsl extensions have been insanely useful, but starting code from inside wsl has gotten sluggish since the last vs code update.
VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
Couldn't agree more.. People who say Electron (on which VSCode is running) is bloated and is slow probably haven't worked on full fledged IDEs using Java.. they consume memory in Gigabytes, are slower, at least appear to be slower, despite using native UI and takes a lot longer to open.
- Windows. By not having to configure drivers and other compatibility problems which I have on Linux it definitely saved me 100 hours. - Listary (windows) Not sure if its 100 hours, but I love its search in any context of explorer. Default explorer search is terrible IMO. For example when you open file - you can use search there instead of navigating by hand.
Odd. Completely the opposite experience here. Windows requires searching and installation of drivers and configuration via GUI. Linux has drivers built in so just works. I haven't had to install a driver manually since ditching nvidia a year ago. And all my config lives in text files on Github. I'm guessing you haven't tried Linux in 10 years or so, but even then I don't understand how Windows does any better on the…
Unless the driver is broken or doesn't exist, then you're SOL.
Bonus: you can update video drivers on Windows without even rebooting or losing your GUI session.
As a nice bonus there is also a wonderful vim plugin :)
Fzf. Fuzzy completion is a godsend for working in the terminal, remembering commands is a thing of the past. As a nice bonus there is also a wonderful vim plugin :)
Linux proper on windows, the Docker Desktop integration and the WSL Remote (and SSH Remote) extensions for VS Code.
- Windows. By not having to configure drivers and other compatibility problems which I have on Linux it definitely saved me 100 hours. - Listary (windows) Not sure if its 100 hours, but I love its search in any context of explorer. Default explorer search is terrible IMO. For example when you open file - you can use search there instead of navigating by hand.
> - Windows. By not having to configure drivers and other compatibility problems which I have on Linux it definitely saved me 100 hours. OTOH building on windows takes literally multiple times the time it takes for building the same software on the same machine / SSD on linux. And that's something that I do every day, multiple times per day.
The VS Code remote wsl and ssh support has also been invaluable.
- Windows. By not having to configure drivers and other compatibility problems which I have on Linux it definitely saved me 100 hours. - Listary (windows) Not sure if its 100 hours, but I love its search in any context of explorer. Default explorer search is terrible IMO. For example when you open file - you can use search there instead of navigating by hand.
And for the past 2 months or so, WSL2, Docker Desktop (WSL2 enabled) and VS Code's WSL extension have made using windows for development about as nice as it gets.... all the non-essential stuff works (rgb controls, etc), and I can still just use linux for development using my GUI editor.