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Given the talks from Microsoft's own React Native team regarding the 300x performance loss from Electron based apps, I am looking forward to the day it gets rewritten in React Native. https://youtu.be/IUMWFExtDSg?t=1146
VS Code, the text editor, is a trojan horse. Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions. This is similar to the IBM approach with JAVA last decade(s?). You install a "text editor" for simple things, like code completion. Before you realize you don't even know which compiler you are using or where it came from. You just press F5 and look at convenient break points. And somehow it only runs right on Azure…
> Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions what are they selling me
It's been interesting to watch some of the UX patterns popularized by the editors mentioned in the article creep into Xcode, though. Again, I dislike some, but I'm glad to see evolution taking place, and I need to repeat a mantra I've said many times: "always be learning." That's the only way to remain successful.
I don't actually use a ton of VSCode plugins, but I'll give a shout out for GitLens. It is magnificent. Big thank you to the maintainers.
VS Code is awesome. If you told me ten years ago my daily driver text editor on Linux would be a Microsoft product, well, you’d have been right. Sane defaults. Snappy interface. Universal UI on multiple OSes that doesn’t suck. First class and best in class TypeScript support. It’s going to be hard to beat, now or five years from now.
VS Code is awesome. If you told me ten years ago my daily driver text editor on Linux would be a Microsoft product, well, you’d have been right. Sane defaults. Snappy interface. Universal UI on multiple OSes that doesn’t suck. First class and best in class TypeScript support. It’s going to be hard to beat, now or five years from now.
My only problem with it is performance when you load large repos and occasionally large files because it is an Electron app eventually. I know the extension ecosystem has thrived just because it is Electron but I wish MS worked on a native editor to achieve it.
Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.
I'm not a fan of VS Code because everything is a plugin. And plugins are inconsistent, buggy, inconsistently documented, hard to use and find and update and goodness knows who developed them. Plugins can be duplicated, outdated, abandoned and incompatible. But worst of all, a big pile of plugins isn't a consistent integrated product vision. I gave VSCode a solid go, and I had to keep installing plugin after plugin, b…
People said a UI based on web tech was backwards and slow. Turns out it os at least fast enough and enables cloud IDEs that can run in the browser.
That said, I tried Nova from Panic (https://nova.app/) the other day, and the native app performance makes a noticeable difference. I know it's doing less, but I can still search the codebase quickly and the resource use is like 10% of other IDEs.
Given the talks from Microsoft's own React Native team regarding the 300x performance loss from Electron based apps, I am looking forward to the day it gets rewritten in React Native. https://youtu.be/IUMWFExtDSg?t=1146
You probably mean something in the ballpark of 3x or 300%, rather than 300x?
I'm not a fan of VS Code because everything is a plugin. And plugins are inconsistent, buggy, inconsistently documented, hard to use and find and update and goodness knows who developed them. Plugins can be duplicated, outdated, abandoned and incompatible. But worst of all, a big pile of plugins isn't a consistent integrated product vision. I gave VSCode a solid go, and I had to keep installing plugin after plugin, b…
My VScode is tweaked to the languages I need and I can use one editor to switch between them.
And the linting and formatting just works.