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Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by gbaygon »

orf wrote: post #69
gbaygon wrote: post #39

I don't know how is it now, but I've used it for a couple of months for web dev on my mac and switched to Atom when noticed my cpu was 70%+ of usage all the time. I suspected it was because of the typescript plugin, but honestly I don't care Atom doesn't do that and I'm happy with it.

I'd have at least spent 15 minutes working out what was causing it before taking the jump and switching editors?

I had, but this was several version back, couldn't find any info of what was failing and also waited a major version update before doing the switch. Switching editors always causes stress. That's why it's hard to gain users back once you made a mistake on this (very competitive) field. I would only try VS Code again if Atom messes up, no matter what new micro site Microsoft PR puts online.

Edit-to-add: with your downvote you are invited to explain why/if I'm wrong.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by switch007 »

prepend wrote: post #90

Is there a way to have intellisense sense work with python dictionaries? It seems like intellisense for json would be a similar issue as nested dictionary representations in json, but I can’t find anything that does this and don’t want to use another class just for faster coding.

On a related note, Pycharm has it IIRC

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by [deleted] »

chrisabrams wrote: post #41
gbaygon wrote: post #39

I don't know how is it now, but I've used it for a couple of months for web dev on my mac and switched to Atom when noticed my cpu was 70%+ of usage all the time. I suspected it was because of the typescript plugin, but honestly I don't care Atom doesn't do that and I'm happy with it.

Interesting I made the opposite switch for the exact same reason.

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Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by reitanqild »

My favourite "features": the ecosystem and the development speed.

It keeps getting better and better and better month by month and it now even knows how to fix small stupid mistakes like a missing this. when trying to access a field in ts etc.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by itwy »

I recently switched to JetBrains products. Their IDEs are much smarter. Infinitely better than VS Code, Sublime and whatnot. It's the closest thing to pair coding!

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by alexeldeib »

tmerr wrote: post #59
staticassertion wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This exists in most editors I've used (intellij is alt + shift + click or double tap alt, if I recall). I don't know how people program without this feature - they should teach this shit in school. Multicursor is amazing. One thing it's been great for: I have code like: byte b1 = array[0]; And I want to do this for 16 bytes. Control + D to duplicate 15x. Double tap control, hit up 15 times - now there's a cursor at e…

And here I am using for loops like a caveman

I think loop unrolling is super cool. We're typically trained in programming to try to eliminate the kind of reuse that unrolling typically looks like, but when applied properly it can work really well. I guess that applies to most tools, though.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by opencl »

coldtea wrote: post #29
opencl wrote: post #21

Will it ever get encoding autodetect? That's one of the big reasons I've stayed on Notepad++. VS Code clearly does detect the encoding, because when you go to change it it suggests the right one, but it doesn't load correctly.

It shouldn't matter in 2018. Why aren't 99.9% of your input files in either ASCII or UTF-8?

I would be thrilled if 99.9% of my input files were UTF-8, but I'm not the one writing them. SJIS remains in widespread use in Japanese companies and tons of legacy codebases do not work with UTF-8. If you're lucky there's a config flag for UTF-16.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by jhomedall »

devbug wrote: post #15

And yet it still doesn't respect the Insert key. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adammara...

I use the Overtype extension for that: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adammara...

It hasn't been updated in over a year, but I've yet to have any issues with it.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by setr »

Groxx wrote: post #77

tbh I wish editors would get rid of "log breakpoints". Teach people to use the conditional breakpoint and just enter `console.log(...)` instead, it's overwhelmingly more powerful. A specialized "log breakpoint" doesn't teach them that it's just code . (I've run into quite a few programmers who have known about log breakpoints for years, used them fairly heavily, but never knew you could do things in conditional break…

I've never even seen log breakpoints before but is it really just a wrapper for inserting console.log()? That seems... kinda useless. From the video, it doesn't even look like it's that easy to clean-up once you're done with them (though maybe there's a remove-all function)

>Teach people to use the conditional breakpoint and just enter `console.log(...)` instead, it's overwhelmingly more powerful.

If you're going to print things for insight at breakpoint time, wouldn't it make more sense to just use watch expressions?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by Analemma_ »

cowmix wrote: post #2

For the past 2+ years I've continued to be amazed by VS Code. The most amazing thing about it, it works best (in my experience) on Linux.

I've noticed this too: builds are faster on Linux (I assume because of the longstanding perf issues with directory traversal on Windows), and some of the GUI elements on Windows are blurry, apparently because of Chromium issues with High DPI that are outside Microsoft's control. I imagine some manager at Microsoft rips his hair out over this, but their loss is our gain.
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