I stopped thinking of VS Code as an "editor" and more as a lightweight IDE and my perceptions about it changed a lot. It's still way faster / smoother than working with Atom though, and I used Atom since it came out, but it's too sluggish feeling. Also search in VS Code is powered by ripgrep which is coded in Rust, and it is blazing fast.
VS Code Roadmap 2018
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#62Does anyone know what the "Investigate into a native model layer" point might be about? It sounds very relevant to my interests, but though it is apparently ongoing, I wasn't able to find any issues or other pages referencing those terms.
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#63I'd love to have an editor scripting language in VS Code that would be a lighter-weight way to create an editing macro than building an extension. Despite the annoying scripting languages, both vim and emacs get a lot of their power and popularity by enabling users to easily add little, custom editing features that they can then bind to keystrokes. Not a macro recorder, but a real scripting language in which cursors,…
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#64Has configuration become any better? I tried using VS Code for both Go and Python and all the magical stuff you needed to add to JSON files in weird places became a show stopper. I simply cannot figure out how it ties together and or figure out what my configuration options are.
You edit one personal settings JSON file for all of your options. You don't have more than one file and it over rides the options so the only things in your JSON file are your options and I comment a ton about what and why they are there.
I prefer this over any gui system. I can copy and paste this and have the same options across all my machines.
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#65This is a great python IDE for Linux.
I wouldn't say its an IDE it just a really powerful editor and the RUN plugin is awesome.
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#66As much as I wanted to like and use VS Code, Electron base still ruined it for me. If it was some other app where I do not expect instant snappiness and lower memory usage, for example, Slack (also Electron app), I would swallow it, but for an editor, I can`t.
I upvoted you to try to offset the misguided downvotes. That is indeed the worst thing about VS Code. I have my computer configured so that most file types open in Sublime Text for that reason. For projects with a lot of TypeScript I'll open a project folder in VSCode, and then just leave it open indefinitely. Because that part is annoyingly slow, as you say. I find it less annoying than Slack, though — seems to me t…
I can see that if you close your editor often. I don't.
By the way checkout GitLens on VS Code.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the regular Visual Studio is a native app and has terrible performance and memory usage too. (joking but also serious)
The regular Visual Studio uses about the same amount of memory as VSCode while being an order of magnitude more complex and feature-rich.
A small bit of anecdotal evidence:
We have a solution with around 30 projects in it - this solution consumes around 1.25gb of RAM in Visual Studio. In contrast, the same solution in VS Code open along with two other windows open to other solutions are using a total less than around 300mb.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I upvoted you to try to offset the misguided downvotes. That is indeed the worst thing about VS Code. I have my computer configured so that most file types open in Sublime Text for that reason. For projects with a lot of TypeScript I'll open a project folder in VSCode, and then just leave it open indefinitely. Because that part is annoyingly slow, as you say. I find it less annoying than Slack, though — seems to me t…
Why do people use desktop Slack? I always run it my browser, I just don't see the value proposition of a native application?
I try to offload as much stuff from the web and into the desktop because it means I can do all my window management with cmd+tab and Spectacle. If something lives in the browser I have a second layer to manage with ctrl+tab, slowing me and increasing mental load.
My full setup is cmd+tab for application switching, Spectacle for window ordering, and ctrl+arrows for switching Spaces. Space 1 is my 'grab-bag' desktop, Space 2 is my browser windows, Space 3 is all my code editing stuff, Space 4 is messaging (Telegram/IRC/Slack) Space 5 is Spotify and Space 6 is Mail and Calendar. All applications are 'pinned' to only open in their respective Space, but can be dragged to another one manually. I like to think of it as a best-of-both worlds hybrid between stacking window management and tiling window management :)
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#69I really want to try VSCode, but it sends data to Microsoft even with Telemetry et al off [1]. Which is not surprising considering that Windows itself does the same thing [2] (hence, my not using Windows). Even if they allowed us to opt-out of telemetry now, I wouldn't trust them not to silently opt us back in later. This is not something I can accept my editor doing, and would expect a little less apathy about it fr…
Actually, the issue link you give actually states that it doesn't if you don't want it to.
It used, at time of issue creation, that one telemetry call was still sent, to tell that you disabled telemetry.
They have since removed that call too, and the only ones left are those to the update server at startup to know if a new version is available (and one to extension market to know if extension updates exists). It can be user disabled, by disabling auto update.
I hate how Windows 10 telemetry is forced down your throat, but for vs code there is no such issue
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#70My main wish for VS Code is 'proper' multiple cursors (where by 'proper' I mean 'works the way I expect' which is the Sublime Text way). I fully understand that if you come from a world of 2D blocks (or regions) where you can select rectangles then VS Code's way of doing things makes sense but I am so used to having multiple identical cursors and being able to swipe vertical lines through tables of text or more often…
shift+alt click seems to behave just like sublime does, I left sublime a long time ago, I'm not sure what you're trying to describe there? Do you mean because it selects the rectangle? Just hit an arrow key.
Right- or ‘end’ to get cursors onto the end of every line