One of the things people does not seem to mention is the great debugging support you have in VSCode.
The possibility to easy setup debugging with support for breakpoint, step through, inspection and so on.
For react-native VSCode is the only IDE I have found which enables this. Previously one had to open Chrome and debug your apps from there, to have it inside the IDE makes it so more convenient.
The same goes for Node(which you also can do in Webstorm, but not free and open source) and as far as I can tell the only IDE you debug Go probably.
As an developer preferring solid IDE`s like VS and Eclipse with full debugging support it always feels like a step backwards when working with an language where this does not exists.
Visual Studio Code 1.0
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0
#122Are there any emacs/vim users here who moved to GUI editors like atom or VS code? I would like to know what potential gains could come from using a GUI text editor.
I really wanted to use VS code with Python so I could use the debugger, but configuration see magical. I really want to like it. In the end it seems that my Django project is configured to kill VS Code when it starts up, even the menu hangs.
It might be nice editor, but it hide to much information for my taste. "You need to setup a launch.json file", well fine, but at least be a little more helpful than that, don't just open an empty file. Starting the debugger either crashed the editor or do nothing, but never informs me as to what the issue might be.
At this point Vim and shell is easier to get started with.
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#123Does anybody else use several editors all the time? I use Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, Atom, and Intellij. I don't stick to one.
I wish I could stick to one editor but there is always some editor that does a way better job at a particular task. Each editor has its killer feature. I have tried turning emulation of emacs/vim on many editors to provide consistency and its never been really good. Thus I have several "default" keybindings in my head.
Because of this I try not to rely on too much magic or customization that any editor provides and instead write lots of shell scripts (Bash, Groovy and Python) to do code generation and to find things.
But I'm always wondering ... could I be more efficient by sticking to one.
VSCode will probably just become another editor I have lying around. Probably for Typescript.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what, gone are the days when we'd spend hours and hours to learn the little little ways of vi and the myriad functions in emacs. Now we need to get things done, can't afford to sit down and study the entire functions of vi and emacs. I don't mean to troll but after switching to vscode and the go plugin I learned go webdev and wrote this small intro book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-text…
What, exactly and without sweeping generalities, does it do that is a transformative step over Sublime Text or Atom? Or, hell, even Kate?
For example the Git integration is awesome and even better than Atom's (you can commit, push, ...).
Of course you can do a lot with extensions, but at least in Atom's case they break a lot for me.
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#125VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written on Unix/Linux. I love linux/unix, but the problem always was with the lack of an awesome text editor cum IDE, yep there is eclipse but it is too clunky, I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS (call me crazy), gedit took way too much memory, geany is fast and mean but the UI sucks plus functionality isn't that great. Enter VSCode,…
So, can VSCode run in a terminal window, without graphical user interface, while ssh'ed into another machine somewhere around the globe over a shitty internet connection, editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;) I like VSCode because of it's debugger plugin infrastructure, but let's not get silly (MS changing the way code is written on Linux).
Yes, you can using `ssh -X` (except for the "in a terminal" part)
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0
#126I'm a long time vim user who's switched mostly to Atom(at least for bigger projects, vim is still my "quick fix" editor). Last time I tried VS Code(6ish months ago?), I liked it all right, but stuck with Atom because at the time the availability of vim like bindings was weak and ruby support was lacking.
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#127VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written on Unix/Linux. I love linux/unix, but the problem always was with the lack of an awesome text editor cum IDE, yep there is eclipse but it is too clunky, I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS (call me crazy), gedit took way too much memory, geany is fast and mean but the UI sucks plus functionality isn't that great. Enter VSCode,…
So, can VSCode run in a terminal window, without graphical user interface, while ssh'ed into another machine somewhere around the globe over a shitty internet connection, editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;) I like VSCode because of it's debugger plugin infrastructure, but let's not get silly (MS changing the way code is written on Linux).
> editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;)
I usually try to keep my source files and config files smaller than a few hundred megabytes. Sounds like you might need more specialized tools for your unusual approach to editing source code.
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#128Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0
#129As much as I love trying VSCode, the lacking of tabs prevents me from keeping it open longer than 1 minute. I'm just not used to not having tabs.
You're not alone: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-stud...
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#130VSCode knockouts Atom in a dispute for becoming a developer editor in a corporate computer.
Sure, you all have root password in your computer. Unfortunately, I belong to a lower race: the corporate developer. I work in a Windows 7 machine, don't have root password and there's a big wall called proxy around me.
I didn't know about VSCode before this HN post, but I was trying to use a new editor instead of Notepad++. In my 5 minutes comparison match between Atom and VSCode, Atom was knocked out in the first minute. To quickly test a new general code editor I just want 3 "simple" things: column selection, regexp search and replace, and a python mode.
Atom: got the regex, must install a column mode extension, need to install a ntlm proxy authentication downloaded from (argh!) Sourceforge, configured it after some google searches, failed to install the extension because it needs a compiler. Ops, just spent 30 min for my 5 min test. Can't spend more time playing with a code editor, must go back to work.
VSCode: Download the portable version https://code.visualstudio.com/docs?dv=winzip and unpack it. Just works.
You've got a new fan VSCode!