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"Update All Extensions" Nice! It was a huge PITA before to close and reopen the editor once for every extension that had to be updated. One of my last big gripes about VSC, gone.
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I don't hold allegiances to a text editor (c'mon, it just edits text!) so I switched from Atom for a while too: I was very impressed with it (it feels so snappy, and looks so cool!). It fell over on linting some of the ES7/8 things that we use in our code base - but as soon as they fix that I will give it another serious go.
I had the same complaints and just went with the excellent ESLint plugin with a ES2016/17 friendly config instead of the default vscode linting.
It's unfortunate to see that the group who named their extension "Vim" is being recognized as more or less the official recommendation for Vim emulation, despite being not so good. The last time that I did a survey of feature completeness, performance, and code quality, the author of the amVim extension had a much better showing across the board--and more active involvement in VSCode extension APIs themselves. Percep…
I haven't used the Vim extensions specifically, but in the extension "store", you can see number of downloads and an average star rating. Is the "bad" Vim plugin not getting downvoted?
Last time I commented on this on HN, I pointed out that the VSCodeVim group's extension had three times the number of downloads as the one called amVim. And of course it would. I speculated last time, just like I'm doing here, that this has more to do with the names chosen for the projects and the air of authority they have (VSCodeVim vs amVim) than it does with extension quality. More troubling is that recently the VSCodeVim folks changed their packaging so that it appears under the Vim name in the extension gallery and began using the official Vim logo, too. Not cool.
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What would full Visual Studio get you that VSC does not? IMO, the main awesomesauce of VS, and its advantages over other IDEs and editors, are 1. The first-in-class debugger 2. Intellisense 3. Really good support for Windows-specific technologies like Win32 and COM VSC has 1 and 2 either now, or on its roadmap. As for 3, why do you want to develop for Windows on a Mac? I guess I don't understand what you need that VS…
Refactoring. Does that come with Intellisense? I've found that even 'rename this symbol' is extremely hard to find support for even in static languages.
I switched from Atom recently and have very few complaints. One of them was the (lack of) icons in the sidebar.. the new Seti icon theme is a great addition. Ooh and they supposedly made Cmd-P searching ('Quick Open') faster. My other main complaint! Edit: Yep it's faster. I used to wait a second or two for the desired results to pop up, now they're close to instant.
I really liked Visual Studio Code, but I couldn't really use it without a Vim plugin. So over the last few months I've been working on this one: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevi... I think it's gotten a lot better, and if lack of vim keybindings was something that was holding you back from trying VSC, I highly encourage you to try it again!
Thanks from a user ;) I cannot use any editor without vim keybindings, furthermore I love "relativenumber", however VSCode gives no API for relative numbers (there is some hacky gutter images extension, but it is really hacky, slow and bad looking). I've made a fork with relative numbers built-in https://github.com/alfanick/vscode . Not going to do pull request, at least not yet - unit testing and i18n required. BTW…
I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.
What would full Visual Studio get you that VSC does not? IMO, the main awesomesauce of VS, and its advantages over other IDEs and editors, are 1. The first-in-class debugger 2. Intellisense 3. Really good support for Windows-specific technologies like Win32 and COM VSC has 1 and 2 either now, or on its roadmap. As for 3, why do you want to develop for Windows on a Mac? I guess I don't understand what you need that VS…