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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by mtanski »

rayiner wrote: post #156
pjmlp wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.

Which is a shame. It guts the market for good tools. It's pretty sad that VS Code doesn't give you much that VS6 couldn't do back in the day (except slower and less stable).

Didn't know that VS6 did JavaScript or TypeScript. I only remember C/C++/VB. Certainly don't remember Node.js support.

Also, I think your memory is playing tricks on you. I've experienced more the my fair share of crashes in VS6.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by drchickensalad »

labrador wrote: post #127
markcerqueira wrote: post #93

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> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

I see you haven't abused multicursors.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by virmundi »

labrador wrote: post #127
markcerqueira wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

I think it depends on how much you treasure battery life. Electron based apps suffer from poor battery life due to the Chromium unpinning. JS is resource intensive compared to C++. You can probably get an extra 20-35% battery life out of Sublime vs Atom. If you don't have the ability to plugin while out, it might be worth the piece of mind.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by cobby »

drchickensalad wrote: post #202
labrador wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

I see you haven't abused multicursors.

VS Code has support of multiple cursors. See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved#_mu...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by code_chimp »

labrador wrote: post #127
markcerqueira wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

For me, it is. Some of the main points that makes it worth money to me are the plugin ecosystem is huge, the editor is fast, its layout management (panes in columns/rows) is incredible, and it was the first editor I had that gave me multi-cursors. I like where VS Code is going and I try to use it when I can, but most of the keybindings and shortcuts I have memorized are for Sublime and IntelliJ based IDEs.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by ryanplant-au »

drchickensalad wrote: post #202
labrador wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

I see you haven't abused multicursors.

VSCode and Atom both have multicursors.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by innocenat »

ggregoire wrote: post #73
aviraldg wrote: post #62

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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'm surprised at how few people use it I'm not: > US $ 129.00 /1st year I don't say it's not worth it, but we have pretty good editors for free (sublime, vscode, atom, etc).

That's organization license. Individual license is just $59

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by ygra »

mtanski wrote: post #201
rayiner wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a shame. It guts the market for good tools. It's pretty sad that VS Code doesn't give you much that VS6 couldn't do back in the day (except slower and less stable).

Didn't know that VS6 did JavaScript or TypeScript. I only remember C/C++/VB. Certainly don't remember Node.js support. Also, I think your memory is playing tricks on you. I've experienced more the my fair share of crashes in VS6.

Not to mention that VS6 had one IDE per language instead of having it all integrated into one, so when you used both VB and C++ you'd have to put up with a drastically different UI for each language.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by xconverge »

redwards510 wrote: post #186
Hydraulix989 wrote: post #94

Anybody know how well VS Code works for C++? I really don't like how limited Sublime's linting/static analysis options are.

I tried to get C++ working in vscode but ran into trouble getting it to debug with gdb. I was looking for a smooth "hit f5 to compile and run (with breakpoints)" experience like I am used to with VS, but unfortunately there are no tutorials I could find on making that happen. The C++ extension is available, but I can't figure out what exactly it does or how to use it. It suffers from that common problem where they gi…

100% agree, similar experience

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by qarioz »

Tyriar wrote: post #138
ralusek wrote: post #126

I love VS Code, but I'm getting a little disheartened after bringing this up almost every release. Is there a plan to improve the syntax highlighting? I know there are custom themes, etc, but they all seem to have the same elements available to them. The JS syntax highlighting can't distinguish between properties and variables, or properties that are functions, or object literal keys. It's almost there, but it's lack…

We packaged up Atom's JavaScript grammar into an extension which is probably just what you're looking for https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

That's exactly the problem. Atom, sublime, and vs code use TextMate's syntax parsing engine https://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars

But the implementation is different. You could just copy the .plist or the .tmLanguage file, but it's useless if it's not implemented or different on vs code.

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