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Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by pjmlp »

baq wrote: post #134
PeCaN wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you rewrite already-working services written in an expressive and battle-tested language to a fad 1970s-style language? It's like being in the late 90s and replacing your existing infrastructure with Java hype, except with a language somehow worse but justified with Rob Pike's pseudointellectual bullshit.

depending on technical debt in Perl code (which is quite easy to incur) it might make sense if you're still making changes to the project. also single-binary deployment is always nice, though in the world where docker exists not as big of a deal as it used to be a few years ago.

> single-binary deployment is always nice

Available since Fortran and not a Go only feature.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by shakna »

headmelted wrote: post #147

I've been working lately on getting Visual Studio Code to compile for ARM. Its working fairly reliably but Travis doesnt support the toolchain so Im having to use Gitlab CI in the meantime. I want to give this a little more polish before I release, but can I gauge from the folks here if there would be any interest in ARM nightlies for Raspberry Pi (and other ARM SBCs)/ARM Chromebooks? If so, I'll move some things aro…

Not so sure about a Raspberry Pi, it'd probably just be a novelty there, considering how slow the Pi is running Chromium and the like. (Though the Pi 3 might be able to handle it better).

Chromebooks on the other hand, sound like a great idea.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by taude »

usaphp wrote: post #108

I don't know, every time I see a new release of Atom or VS code and people praising it in comments I go ahead and download it and open the project that I am currently working on in Sublime for side by side comparison. And what strikes me most is how smooth Sublime is compared to Visual Studio Code or Atom (at least on my mac, I dont know about windows experience). Scrolling is much slower in VSC and searching through…

I'm on a 2014 MacBook Air and I open files with !5K lines long and it's smooth to scroll. My only knock would be a slow startup time, but I open my project in VSCode and leave it open for weeks at a time...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by rplnt »

buckbova wrote: post #2

Looks like this editor is constantly improving. Anyone have an opinion on how this editor compares to webstorm? Suppose I'll have to just give it a try to find out.

One nitpick I have is, it's not an editor. It sure does contain an editor, but calling it just editor creates some confusion (as can be seen in the comments here). Editor should be usable to just edit files, which VS Code really isn't (starting an instance and loading the file takes ages).

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by sc4les »

sorenjan wrote: post #72

If any of the VS Code developers are reading this, I have a few suggestions: When I open a single code file with VS Code, I'd like the workspace to automatically get populated with the other files in the same folder, or at least have a simple option to do so. I like that VS Code use the folder structure instead of a special project file like .sln, but this is a small annoyance since I often open single files before d…

Hm there is this for fast (shell) execution: https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/wiki/Miscellane...

Jupyter support has been added in version 4.0: https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/releases

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by speps »

headmelted wrote: post #147

I've been working lately on getting Visual Studio Code to compile for ARM. Its working fairly reliably but Travis doesnt support the toolchain so Im having to use Gitlab CI in the meantime. I want to give this a little more polish before I release, but can I gauge from the folks here if there would be any interest in ARM nightlies for Raspberry Pi (and other ARM SBCs)/ARM Chromebooks? If so, I'll move some things aro…

> Travis doesnt support the toolchain so Im having to use Gitlab CI in the meantime.

AppVeyor has really good Windows images : https://www.appveyor.com/

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by shakna »

Philipp__ wrote: post #143

While this editor really attracts me, (it has that Emacs-y vibe, where it integrates many external tools in nice cohesive interface) I still cannot overcome that it is still basically an electron app. Atom is just a no go, despite all the candy looks and nice little plugins, I cannot justify energy and memory usage. I heard VSCode is totally different story, but I have yet to find js developed desktop app that doesn'…

I despise Electron and the culture it encourages of huge, slow applications.

I do have to say, that VS Code is entirely different, and the first time I played with it, I didn't realise it was using Electron.

It is really solidly engineered, with an insane amount of time and effort by great people working on the best of features for what an IDE needs, rather than the next shiny feature. (Scrolling, Time Travel Debugging, functional end points within to better allow for Vim and Emacs style integrations).

My upshot? Give it a chance.

This isn't something insane created by someone convinced Electron solves all their problems for them.

Its experts in TypeScript using what they know, inside and out, to make something deserving of the expert's attention.

The installer is 30ish MB, unliked the 200ish I've seen from a ton of Electron applications. gVim takes up the same amount of space on my system.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by Philipp__ »

shakna wrote: post #178
Philipp__ wrote: post #143

While this editor really attracts me, (it has that Emacs-y vibe, where it integrates many external tools in nice cohesive interface) I still cannot overcome that it is still basically an electron app. Atom is just a no go, despite all the candy looks and nice little plugins, I cannot justify energy and memory usage. I heard VSCode is totally different story, but I have yet to find js developed desktop app that doesn'…

I despise Electron and the culture it encourages of huge, slow applications. I do have to say, that VS Code is entirely different, and the first time I played with it, I didn't realise it was using Electron. It is really solidly engineered, with an insane amount of time and effort by great people working on the best of features for what an IDE needs, rather than the next shiny feature. (Scrolling, Time Travel Debuggi…

This was kind of post that I was hoping for! I will install it and configure it this noon, just to finish with studies. Thank you for taking your time!

Edit: Oh my god. Just installed it! This thing flies! It is first electron app that is light and fast! Mark me impressed! Good job Microsoft!

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