I recently switch from atom, but the one thing I hate is that it doesn't save open files or folders between runs
That's the main reason I don't use it. The other is that there's no way to hide the buttons on the left.
Visual Studio Code 1.7
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#32I love using VIM to edit, but stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching.
"ATA makes typings files almost invisible. A TypeScript language server that has ATA enabled watches your package.json files and automatically installs the typings files of all dependencies in a cache on your file system. It does the same when it finds references to well known client-side libraries. When you then invoke IntelliSense, the TypeScript server uses the typings files in the cache."
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#33Ah haha this is too funny, I just this morning caved from trying to have a functioning version of Ubuntu on the macbook work gave me, booted back into OSX, and spent a good 30 minutes scrolling through the VSCode keyboard shortcuts JSON, writing down the ones I was interested in relearning on post-its and lining them around my monitor.
And not four hours later they release a pretty little printable PDF.
Not very on topic but I hope some of you can at least get a hoot from my misery.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#34As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.
It does have multiple cursors. See https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_multip...
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#35As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#36I still prefer using the free edition of VS2015. Maybe too stuck in my ways.
I have no idea why anyone would prefer VS Code for C++ or C#/.NET work on Windows. For everything else, Visual Studio has never been particularly great.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#37As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.
It actually does have multi cursor. Try cmd + D to highlight multiple instances of a selected block, just like in sublime.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#38As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#39I still prefer using the free edition of VS2015. Maybe too stuck in my ways.
Visual Studio Code really shines on Mac and Linux where there is no VS2015 available
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7
#40When MS gets into something, they really get into it. VS Code has exceeded pretty much all my expectations with the pace it has been progressing at.
The biggest thing for me has been the consistency. They already had an amazing IDE (Visual Studio), then they buckled down and made an amazing paired-down version (VSCode). It works well, does all the things I'd want and then some.
Compare to Google releasing a chat client / message handler (google voice app), another one (hangouts), taking away functionality (removing shared sms/hangouts convos), then releasing two more chat apps (allo/duo). Or countless other occasions they've done this.
I was just thinking today after yesterday's HN thread on the new Macbook and "everything wrong with it." People were complaining that nobody can really match the build quality of Apple, which is a shame because it'd be great to have a windows / linux device with high build quality (that isn't hacky). Imagine if Microsoft put their weight behind manufacturing a dope laptop like Google has been trying to do with the Pixel phone?