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VS 2019 without ReSharper does not feel bloated at all.
I'm running VS2019 inside a VM on a Mac and it's horrendous, particularly compile times. It does feel normal on a proper Windows box though.
I have converted to VSCode because it just works and I don't have to mess with PATH or whatever. I run it on Windows, Linux and MacOS and it works the same.
I love that it's extensions-centric because now I can ignore them - instead of the editor bloating into a bigger and slower hairball over the years as devs add new features.
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.
Discovering & pre-loading hundreds of thousands of files is slow on native too. I'm not particularly pleased with how easily folks write off web platform tech as somehow being the source of problems or slowness.
The one complaint that does seem fair is that the memory usage can be high, because there's so much runtime to load. Also, I just keep thinking about your ask here. You want a native editor. But it wouldn't be a native editor. It'd be a native Windows editor, a native Mac editor, a native Android editor, a native iOS editor, a native web editor, a native Gnome, a native KDE editor, &c &c; your preference seems to be that Microsoft have made at least 5 editors. I'm not sure how the plugin system could exist amid such a diverse amount of native runtimes.
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…
Which IDE? If you mean Visual Studio, that's a Windows only product and it's really only good for Windows specific development like C# and MSVC. If you do C# or C++ development on Windows or XBox then you're likely already using Visual Studio and the community edition is a free product for individual use or open source products. If you mean some future IDE that MS is working on that they plan to evolve VS Code into,…
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…
I have to reinstall PlatformIO every time I use the program. It only takes a second but its absolute madness.
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…
Jokes aside, I guess what VS Code needs is to grow a strong community of people who care about the editor as much as what they do using it. Emacs has managed to do that, so it's possible.
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…
I have to reinstall PlatformIO every time I use the program. It only takes a second but its absolute madness.
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.
Perhaps it is my habit of opening a subset of the repo into the workspace rather than the whole thing (e.g. only the bottom 4 or 5 directory levels so there is at most only a few hundred files in the workspace - builds etc just run from the usual command line so not having the entire repo in the workspace is not an issue for my workflow) but I have been nothing apart from really happy with the performance and have never been found wanting more, apart from loading time but that only happens once or twice a week so I can live with that.
Excel is used widely and even with file portability. Microsoft Office is still what many people are used to.
Illustrator, In addition of been being popular. It uses their binary ai file format making it harder to switch from.
TextEditors unlike those 2 does plain text. So there’s at least no file lock-in for plain text.
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…