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Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by johnfn »

carussell wrote: post #30

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…

Hi there. I'm one of the authors of the Vim plugin. I'd highly encourage you to try it out again. It has improved quite substantially in the last few months.

Nowadays we have a much larger range of commands. We've got visual block mode, incremental search, vimrc support, marks, registers, proper vim undo support, very broad motion support, and quite a bit more.

Let me know what you think!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by aviraldg »

msoad wrote: post #32

VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)

Try WebStorm. I'm surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by romanovcode »

ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #6

I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.

I'm working with C# on Mac with this and it works perfectly fine. Debugger and intellisense is good enough to work with.

It will never be as advanced as VS but then again, VS will (probably) never come to Mac.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by jackmott »

positr0n wrote: post #57
jackmott wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and some of your errors are caught before firing up a whole web app and a browser!

Now I am just a noob javascript developer, but s/some/most/ in my experience! :)

error type distribution varies greatly depending on problem domain. Even Idris programs can have runtime errors though =)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by jackmott »

aviraldg wrote: post #62
msoad wrote: post #32

VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)

Try WebStorm. I'm surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)

I think people find it a little overwhelming, if they aren't familiar with other IntelliJ editors already. I did. Of course Visual Studio is just as overwhelming, but more people are forced to be used to that.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by cyberferret »

spleeder wrote: post #10

I love how VS Code has no problem working with large and even minified files (unlike some other “modern” editors). Every update is just icing on the cake. Keep up the good work!

I had to tweak a minified CSS file for a client project the other day, and granted, VS Code opened the file faster and auto wrapped the output (Atom took a while and showed the file as one long 70000 character single line).

However, I noted that VS Code lost all syntax highlighting and displayed everything as a uniform grey text, making it harder to find what I was looking for. Atom retained the CSS syntax highlighting.

I also have a plugin for Atom to 'prettify' the CSS and basically un-minify it. Anyone recommend a similar plugin for VS Code that can do the same?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by duncanawoods »

romanovcode wrote: post #63
ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #6

I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.

I'm working with C# on Mac with this and it works perfectly fine. Debugger and intellisense is good enough to work with. It will never be as advanced as VS but then again, VS will (probably) never come to Mac.

Can you share your instructions for setting it up please?

I found it very unconvincing last time I tried - I had weird errors installing .net Core, weird errors setting up tools in VS code and found no definitive instructions. I expected it to work pretty much out of the box... but no.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by mixedCase »

aviraldg wrote: post #62
msoad wrote: post #32

VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)

Try WebStorm. I'm surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)

VSCode is open source software. WebStorm isn't. I love JetBrains IDEs but I sure as hell prefer using tools that I can fix or modify myself.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by maxsilver »

I love the updates the VSC team has been putting out, and I know this is related to Electron issues, but I really wish they would add High DPI support.

Without it, this weird situation exists where Microsoft's Visual Studio Code looks really blurry on Microsoft's Surface Pro, because Microsoft Software isn't using Microsoft's API.

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