I keep trying VSCode, but the main thing that keeps me going back to Atom is the fact that I have to do everything at the command line or by editing an enormous json file. Maybe I'm spoiled, but I'd much rather have a nice UI to deal with settings than have to figure out that, say, in order to show line numbers I have to modify "editor.lineNumbers" and set it to "on" (or is it "true"? or 1? I can't remember... let me go waste more time looking it up...)
Visual Studio Code 1.9
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#52Or maybe you are part of VSCode's epic astroturfing campaign? Sorry, not saying you are but man MS is guerilla marketing VSCode like I've never seen in an opensource developer product.
Agreed. Since VSCode came out there has been one gigantic circle jerk over it. It's "always" been better than sublime and atom, even though sublime and atom had been out for much longer.
I've used a lot of text editors. VSCode really isn't miles ahead of the rest. As tech enthusiasts we all discuss new software regularly and we know none of us agree on one thing. According to stackoverflow, VSC is only used by 7.2% of users, yet people want to argue that "everyone just agrees it's a good editor". No, no they don't.
The MS employees aren't tricking anyone and it's really more of a turn off than anything. I'll just stick with Vim (there's a reason it's still popular after decades).
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#53I find it kind of funny that most screenshots are taken from MacOS :)
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#54I use vs code for Go development and it's pretty amazing. Slowly starting to use it in other languages as well, but the Go support is really 5*.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#55The slowness shown in the pre-1.9 terminal is a bit ridiculous. Was it really the case? I've never seen such a strangely-behaving emulator! Really good that they resolved the issue.
Hi, I worked on those improvements. Yes that is indeed what would happen when you ran a command with heaps of output, it would also lock up the UI while doing it. You probably haven't observed it much as you don't do recursive directory walk on a large directory ;) You can read more about the specifics if you're interested in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17875
Great, I didn't know the terminal portion if VS Code exists as a separate project. Was it made to fuel VS Code? Or did it already exist before launching VS Code?
I also liked the name of the project, xterm.js. :)
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#56Or maybe you are part of VSCode's epic astroturfing campaign? Sorry, not saying you are but man MS is guerilla marketing VSCode like I've never seen in an opensource developer product.
Agreed. Since VSCode came out there has been one gigantic circle jerk over it. It's "always" been better than sublime and atom, even though sublime and atom had been out for much longer. I've used a lot of text editors. VSCode really isn't miles ahead of the rest. As tech enthusiasts we all discuss new software regularly and we know none of us agree on one thing. According to stackoverflow, VSC is only used by 7.2% o…
I see you've brought that old school paranoid about Microsoft with you over to HN. Vim on Windows is a hilarious idea, though.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#57I keep trying VSCode, but the main thing that keeps me going back to Atom is the fact that I have to do everything at the command line or by editing an enormous json file. Maybe I'm spoiled, but I'd much rather have a nice UI to deal with settings than have to figure out that, say, in order to show line numbers I have to modify "editor.lineNumbers" and set it to "on" (or is it "true"? or 1? I can't remember... let me…
While I agree that a real settings menu could be an improvement, they have made the settings experience better. They show a searchable annotated list of all the default settings on the left, and when you type a setting key in on the right it will show suggestions for possible values.
Looking at it just now, I also see that they added categories, and little edit buttons when you hover over a setting which allow you to click on what option you want. It's a bit strange to me that they're slowly turning a config file into a settings interface, but I guess it works fine for a Developer-focused product.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#58VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project. I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?
VS Code is a web dev IDE. Microsoft has lost the mobile platform wars and pushing the web is a way of countering that. Plus, web and azure do go hand-in-hand, as you point out.
I've never heard of VS Code referred to as a web dev IDE - what makes you say that?
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#59It's nice that they added an option to change the side of the close button. But way more important are sensible defaults, and that should be on the left side for mac os.
Still I am a very happy user of Visual Studio Code.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9
#60I'm used to being able to run my program via command-R or some other key equivalent. I haven't been able to find a way to do this conveniently from VSCode. How do other VSCode users run their programs?