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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 kminehart »

gbersac wrote: post #247
newjersey wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a comparing intellij platform to eclipse makes more sense. Why is eclipse so unintuitive? For example, why must I click ok after pushing a change to a remote git server? Shouldn't it be a toast?

The same question is even more relevant to emacs and vim. Why are they so unintuitive ?

Intuitiveness is honestly a relative problem. I've been using vi for a long time. What's intuitive to me? Moving my cursor with hjkl is intuitive to me. Using `C-w h` to move my cursor to NERDTree, then searching for my file with `/filename` and opening it with enter makes taking my hand off the keyboard to move my mouse to double-click on a file seem absolutely barbaric.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by Corrado »

Oh, I really like the Seti File icon themes. Sure, it's a small thing but I think it will really help with quickly recognizing file types, which can help indicate things like which folder you are in (is it full of C# files?).

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by qarioz »

dchuk wrote: post #50

Anyone use VS Code for Ruby/Rails? Equal or better than Atom/Sublime? I switched from sublime to atom recently but atom is slow (I know I know) and VS Code seems well regarded so willing to give it a try.

The ruby extension is good enough. Debugger works, syntax highlight works, many linter works. There's an extension for erb highlighting. A couple weeks ago Matz himself added rcodetools for autocompletion. I contribute a couple of lines and 2 extensions for haml and rspec snippets. There's still more things to do and bugs in the extensions, but it's kinda ok.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by bluepill »

pjmlp wrote: post #218
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 is not a strange logic and I am not talking only about quality. I am talking about IT being one of the few professions in 2016, with individuals that expect to earn money while using tools produced with the effort of others for free (beer), while not giving anything back (not even bug reports, unless their own customers press them against the wall). So the question isn't about the quality, rather how many Emacs an…

Vim is charity ware actually or at least that's how it was qualified when I started using it. Most of the long time vim users I know have donated several times. Vim and Emacs also have shit loads of plugins, which can make them behave just like Atom or VSCode so as usual I think it's just a matter of preference.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by labrador »

mosen wrote: post #195
labrador wrote: post #131

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My impression is that Xamarin is designed to suck dollars out of corporate enterprise users who need to do something with mobile devices and can pay big bucks for Xamarin because it allows their C# devs to make a mobile app in short order. It saves them in the long run.

Isn't Xamarin free now?

They have a community edition but sell a corporate version with Xamarin Studio & SDK (not in community edition) for an unspecified price. It used to be $1,000 per developer.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by pjmlp »

bluepill wrote: post #254
pjmlp wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not a strange logic and I am not talking only about quality. I am talking about IT being one of the few professions in 2016, with individuals that expect to earn money while using tools produced with the effort of others for free (beer), while not giving anything back (not even bug reports, unless their own customers press them against the wall). So the question isn't about the quality, rather how many Emacs an…

Vim is charity ware actually or at least that's how it was qualified when I started using it. Most of the long time vim users I know have donated several times. Vim and Emacs also have shit loads of plugins, which can make them behave just like Atom or VSCode so as usual I think it's just a matter of preference.

I am yet to know anyone that gave any money to Vim.

Would those shit loads of plugins exist if people had to pay for them?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by orbitingpluto »

tga wrote: post #165

I am worried about a lot of common functionality in VSCode/Atom, from keyboard bindings to support for more languages, being implemented by 3rd party plugins. They are updated independently, without verification, and have full code execution and network access (and things like independent telemetry). Am I alone in this? Are there security features that I'm missing to guarantee that my code editor isn't leaking inform…

I noticed in the privacy instructions that MS gives a setting to disable telemetry, but only on per project. So every time you open up a new project, it will be reporting on you until you (remember to) disable it.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by sgt »

alangpierce wrote: post #91
sgt wrote: post #85

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I haven't used WebStorm, but if it's as good as PyCharm (also a JetBrains product), then it'll definitely be worth getting.

WebStorm and PyCharm are both (more or less) repackaged versions of IntelliJ with specific plugins. WebStorm is cheaper and just includes the JavaScript support (and other related languages/tools) and PyCharm includes both JavaScript and Python support. So everything in WebStorm is also in PyCharm.

That's how I found out about PyCharm, as I'd already been using IntelliJ for a few years (I primarily do Java development).

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by Rapzid »

sethammons wrote: post #248
Rapzid wrote: post #225

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For some reason, for me, I have to save to get syntax highlighting and errors. Then, I have to save again to clear them. Is this just me?

I have to save to get go fmt to run, but I get colors and many most errors as I type. How odd. You could reach out to the extension's team, I hear they are responsive.

That didn't come out quite right; I meant syntax errors. I will check with the extension team.
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