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It is scary that a text editor can run hidden code just by opening a folder. We traded our safety for convenience and now we are paying the price. Users will always click the button to trust a file if they think it helps them work faster. We cannot blame them when the software design makes it so easy to make a mistake.
Not the first time. Same with LLMs.
Coming from the perspective of an eclipse fan, why is VS code the defacto answer nowadays? Im forced to use vs code (so biased), but everything seems worse than eclipse, plus these repeated security issues from malware laced projects. Theres been several posts about infected projects by fake recruiters here in the last year or two. Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor.
> Coming from the perspective of an eclipse fan, why is VS code the defacto answer nowadays? Is eclipse good now? I used it 15 years ago. It took ages to start. It was a memory hog and it was dog slow besides. My entire team got RAM upgrades on our computers because the default company issued machines (which were quite good at the time) didn't have enough RAM to use eclipse properly. I can't imagine why it went out o…
Eclipse gets a lot of automatic hate - I believe mostly since a lot of people first use it in university and struggled with their first real IDE.
For years and years I had people telling me how great IntelliJ was, etc. I eventually switched - lo and behold, IntelliJ had just as many quirks (even some of the same) as Eclipse.
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That is a massive red flag to me too. They are basically saying "you are identical to everyone else, and easily replaced."
Wanting to be able to use anybody's machine is very strange, agreed. From a support/IT perspective though, the closer everybody's machine is, the easier the job is. The last software shop I worked at, we had a default set of tools and configs. It was a known happy path. You were allowed to adventure off of that path, but you were mostly on your own.
No more "works on my computer" issues. The environment is always identical.
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> Coming from the perspective of an eclipse fan, why is VS code the defacto answer nowadays? Is eclipse good now? I used it 15 years ago. It took ages to start. It was a memory hog and it was dog slow besides. My entire team got RAM upgrades on our computers because the default company issued machines (which were quite good at the time) didn't have enough RAM to use eclipse properly. I can't imagine why it went out o…
How much ram did you have, and when was this? I remember being extremely happy with Eclipse on an 8GB machine - this was back in the jvm7 days. Heck, I did jvm6 development with Eclipse on Windows XP with 4GB of ram and was content. Eclipse gets a lot of automatic hate - I believe mostly since a lot of people first use it in university and struggled with their first real IDE. For years and years I had people telling…
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Doesn't it ask you if you trust a folder when you open it?
You are right that the computer asks you. But people click yes because they are used to ignoring warning signs. The software relies on people making perfect choices every time and that never happens.
Coming from the perspective of an eclipse fan, why is VS code the defacto answer nowadays? Im forced to use vs code (so biased), but everything seems worse than eclipse, plus these repeated security issues from malware laced projects. Theres been several posts about infected projects by fake recruiters here in the last year or two. Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor.
VSCode is defacto standard because it’s kinda mediocre but works ok enough for every language and every platform. Microsoft created and popularized LSP so VSCode isn’t a single language IDE.
I use a mixture of code editors. My favorite is probably 10x but it only works with C++. So VSCode is just a reasonably standard unless a different editor is better for a specific use case.
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why is VS code the defacto answer nowaday? 1. It's free 2. A million plug-ins Personally, I don't use it because it's so dog slow.
> A million plug-ins > I don't use it because it's so dog slow. You might find it runs better with fewer plugins.
Maybe VS Code is faster with fewer plugins but it's still "dog slow" to load and run. Only thing I'm "missing" in vim is the bloat
[0] personal I only use a handful but I've played around because why not
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Seems very odd to me that someplace would force the use of a particular development tool. I've seen it only one time while interviewing, where they wanted everyone to have identical setups so they could easily hop onto each others computers when needed... it was weird and I took it as a red flag and didn't follow through them them.
That is a massive red flag to me too. They are basically saying "you are identical to everyone else, and easily replaced."
Having consistent machine and OS and app configurations enables better (lower cost, higher reliability) scripting and tooling solutions in things like repos and infrastructure.
Not unlike consistency in language and compiler choices.