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VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by somenameforme »

torben-friis wrote: post #11

If anyone is considering moving editors, I was recently in the same boat and I can’t recommend enough lazyvim + the ebook “lazyvim for ambitious developers”. This gets you a fully featured vscode-like baseline (navigation, language integration, integrated terminal, the whole thing). I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward. With…

I think some of the big features of VSCode are the extensions and, equivalently, the nice debug support. I just started using VSCode about a week ago thanks to moving to a project that uses scons as its primary supported build tool, and I've learned to hate scons and love VSCode over that time. The completely manual tasks/launch/etc stuff is kind of weird at first, but then becomes amazing and far more convenient, after you get used to it. And the 'debugger' (kind of weird to frame it that way as its extension based, like everything) is amazing - extremely fast, great visualizations, and so on.

How would vim compare?

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by heavyset_go »

alias_neo wrote: post #32
PedroBatista wrote: post #13

Microsoft doing Microsoft things, even with all those fresh coats of "open source" paint they bathe themselves in the last decade they really can't change their DNA. Expect the amount of f*ckery to increase as the AI realities set in but the number has to go up either way. It reminds me of the good old days of Visual Studio + .NET + SQL Server where they played these games too.

This piece of news follows that of Copilot being added in an "update" to LG TVs with no option to disable or opt out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268844

It's a crime what LG did to webOS. Somehow they turned something great into one of the worst smart TV experiences on the market.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by bromuro »

twoquestions wrote: post #37
Surac wrote: post #27

can anyone recomend a alternative that is easy to install and also offers syntax highlighting? i have read about lazyvim and neovim, but both have extensive install requirments as i have read

I've been having a very good time with Zed. Great vim motion support, and fast to the point where using VSCode feels like driving a semi truck by comparison. https://zed.dev

Yet the UI is terrible. I trashed it because of that -really wanted to give a chance.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by kcoddington »

skydhash wrote: post #46
torben-friis wrote: post #11

If anyone is considering moving editors, I was recently in the same boat and I can’t recommend enough lazyvim + the ebook “lazyvim for ambitious developers”. This gets you a fully featured vscode-like baseline (navigation, language integration, integrated terminal, the whole thing). I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward. With…

> I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward What’s that initial barrier? Both Vim and emacs has great documentation that includes a tutorial, a guide, and a reference. What people often defines as workable system is replicating their old editors instead of learning the current one. Like adding a file tree on the side

Learning an entirely new editor is a barrier. Documentation or not, that's brand new muscle memory you have to develop alongside the actual task of coding.

I get that using vim typically includes obsessive forms of efficiency, but some people just want to focus on coding in a way that's comfortable to them. Sometimes that means having a side panel.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by captainbland »

blibble wrote: post #47
Alifatisk wrote: post #2

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if they waited another year or so they could have killed off jetbrains patience is a virtue

I use both but really don't see it. There are so many scenarios I've come across which jetbrains products do "out of the box" that vscode require plugins which usually don't install with sensible defaults. Just debugging rust for example is a night and day difference between vscode and rust rover.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by heavyset_go »

Surac wrote: post #27

can anyone recomend a alternative that is easy to install and also offers syntax highlighting? i have read about lazyvim and neovim, but both have extensive install requirments as i have read

I'm a Kate zealot, if you're on Linux it's great with some LSP servers. The plugins/extensions are nice. There are also macOS and Windows builds.

For the terminal, micro is nice if you're used to GUI editors.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by rPlayer6554 »

Just to be clear, they are NOT deactivating IntelliSense which suggests classes and functions.

This is an AI inline code suggestion tool using local LLMs.

Not great but may or may not impact your workflow. I love using agents, but Intellijs inline code suggestions (also based on a local LLMs) are usually useless to me.

Re: VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

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Post by an0malous »

WhereIsTheTruth wrote: post #54

Stop using microsoft products, it's not that hard Protect yourself by removing dependence on Big Tech ecosystems They bait you with "free" tools to herd you into walled gardens where you are the product (and customer at the same time, LUL)

It is hard because they keep buying all the popular products
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