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I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by bbkane »

Vermyndax wrote: post #4

I use vscode for doing devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) and sometimes the way it bogs down my system drives me bananas. I'll punt to Sublime Text on occasion and use it for a few days, but then start running into papercuts in various places and have to go back to vscode. I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron.

Keep an eye on https://lapce.dev/ and https://zed.dev/ . Both immature, but show a lot of promise! Also both open source, so (in theory, I haven't tried) you can contribute patches to fic your issues

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by mlhpdx »

skilled wrote: post #6

No offense, but who made this? How did the submitter find this? The Download page has a name but a Google search doesn’t return much. Not that anyone would run a binary just like that, but I do find it interesting.

I hope developers are among the most careful about putting new things on their systems. I hope.

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Vermyndax wrote: post #4

I use vscode for doing devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) and sometimes the way it bogs down my system drives me bananas. I'll punt to Sublime Text on occasion and use it for a few days, but then start running into papercuts in various places and have to go back to vscode. I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron.

> devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.)

> I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron.

I do all of those things in vim and it works fine. No GUI and I'm sure it's missing some fancy new features, but it's fast and reliable (and it's not electron).

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by ksec »

VSCode is slow?

I mean, for 7 years? Somewhere around early 2017 things started to get out of hand and VSCode was super hyped. To the point 99% on HN was saying it was very fast. Initially ( Pre 2017 ) it was compared to Atom which means the bar was low. And then somehow people start claiming it was as fast as Sublime or they see no difference.

As someone mentioned down below, both Lapce and Zed is designed with speed in mind. Or just use VIM.

VSCode may be flexible, but it is only fast by the measure of an electron App.

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

mlhpdx wrote: post #12
skilled wrote: post #6

No offense, but who made this? How did the submitter find this? The Download page has a name but a Google search doesn’t return much. Not that anyone would run a binary just like that, but I do find it interesting.

I hope developers are among the most careful about putting new things on their systems. I hope.

> I hope.

I have... simply the worst of news.

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by candiddevmike »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13
Vermyndax wrote: post #4

I use vscode for doing devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) and sometimes the way it bogs down my system drives me bananas. I'll punt to Sublime Text on occasion and use it for a few days, but then start running into papercuts in various places and have to go back to vscode. I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron.

> devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) > I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron. I do all of those things in vim and it works fine. No GUI and I'm sure it's missing some fancy new features, but it's fast and reliable (and it's not electron).

I traded vim for VSCode back when VSCode was fast. These days, there is so much shit running in VSCode by default that it has become an unruly mess. I couldn't tell you what happens when I save or open a file like I could with Vim--what checks are being ran or what telemetry is being exfiltrated.

At this point it's just laziness and inertia keeping me on VSCode, getting my neovim setup back (along with the muscle memory) keeps getting pushed off.

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by theossuary »

candiddevmike wrote: post #16
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) > I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron. I do all of those things in vim and it works fine. No GUI and I'm sure it's missing some fancy new features, but it's fast and reliable (and it's not electron).

I traded vim for VSCode back when VSCode was fast. These days, there is so much shit running in VSCode by default that it has become an unruly mess. I couldn't tell you what happens when I save or open a file like I could with Vim--what checks are being ran or what telemetry is being exfiltrated. At this point it's just laziness and inertia keeping me on VSCode, getting my neovim setup back (along with the muscle mem…

I haven't been able to find an IDE use because their vim integration is only ever for the editor. But I hate having to constantly manage my vim config; I settled on using LazyVim and have been pretty happy. It's heavy as far as vim is concerned, but once you get used to it, it's nice being able to update and not have everything break hah

Re: I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own

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Post by solardev »

mlhpdx wrote: post #12
skilled wrote: post #6

No offense, but who made this? How did the submitter find this? The Download page has a name but a Google search doesn’t return much. Not that anyone would run a binary just like that, but I do find it interesting.

I hope developers are among the most careful about putting new things on their systems. I hope.

I usually read most of the description's first sentence before downloading a npm package. Does that count?
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