Thanks to the awesome plugin from Luke Hoban, VSCode has been great for writing Go. The best feature is the integrated debugging. Granted, it still relies on Delve, so you have the associated madness with taming that beast (self signing certs on OS X? Although that appears to gone now with the homebrew package).
But just being able to type some code, set a breakpoint, run to it, and inspect some locals makes me so much more productive than the Printf driven debugging that so many masochists still cling to.
I've been using VSC as my daily driver for a few months now and it's great -- even on nightly builds. The most powerful features is the tasks.json. Once I learned to use it (the docs aren't good on it), I was able to utilize it to bring a more cohesive experience across many code bases. I enjoy the fact that it gives an integrated experience and allows community extensions. This is a big change from atom where everyt…
What are some of the custom tasks you've been using in it? I've found I'm using the integrated terminal significantly more than I ever did with the tasks, but maybe I'm missing something really cool.
Visual Studio Code is currently my favorite editor. Fast, informative intellisense, great debugging environment, good git integration, faster than Atom, etc.
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
Unfortunately there isn't a clear name for it. There's a bunch of sibling comments that, I think, don't quite get it right. Autocomplete is a feature. For any given autocomplete implementation, there can be a number of different sources to actually populate the AC UI. Company mode in Emacs (COMPlete ANYthing) works this way - it's a general AC framework, and different modes can provide different AC sources to it. Hippie completion, in Emacs at least, refers to a combination of a variety of sources - text in the current buffer, in other buffers, on the kill ring (e.g. Recently copied text), etc.
Me too. I was a bit skeptic at first. Been a long time vim user but wanted to try something new. I now use it to code Python (I write a lot of it). It works very nicely. So much that I'm in the process of making it the official company -wide text editor for python at work.
I'm curious, what's the thought behind having an official company-wide text editor? The companies I've worked for usually take the route of "leave their choice in tools up to them", which I appreciate.
I can understand it, if it's not too draconian. It's nice for some central power to have coherent walktnroughs on how to set up an editor to lint, etc. If another dev wants to use a different editor and can make it work, it's fine by me, but I can't see anyone "supporting" every editor out there.
I've been using VSC as my daily driver for a few months now and it's great -- even on nightly builds. The most powerful features is the tasks.json. Once I learned to use it (the docs aren't good on it), I was able to utilize it to bring a more cohesive experience across many code bases. I enjoy the fact that it gives an integrated experience and allows community extensions. This is a big change from atom where everyt…
What are some of the custom tasks you've been using in it? I've found I'm using the integrated terminal significantly more than I ever did with the tasks, but maybe I'm missing something really cool.
I work across many code bases and technology stacks so I use it to standardize tasks such as: build, test, continuous testing, running and linting. Without it I would have to remember the command for each code base.
What would be some of the cool features that only exist on VSC that Sublime doesn't have?
The cool telemetry phone home features that cannot be turned off in a reliable way (think updates). It's the feel good vibe that runs through all new MS apps and Win10. We should thank the third CEO for his great vision and be happy to give him all insight he needs. He is clearly steering his thriving platform to the next level.
I tried to use it for C++ development on Linux. A project I'm working on uses Qt, and I put QT's include directories into the configuration file as was described in documentation. I was unable to get autocompletion to work with Qt and after 10 minutes I gave up on it and went back to using Netbeans.
Me too. I was a bit skeptic at first. Been a long time vim user but wanted to try something new. I now use it to code Python (I write a lot of it). It works very nicely. So much that I'm in the process of making it the official company -wide text editor for python at work.