The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#2Another interesting angle on this is that VS Code is free (and open source), while Sublime is proprietary and (nominally) costs $80. I wonder how many people don't use Sublime because of the price? Atom is free too and never surpassed Sublime.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#3I'm not Microsoft's biggest fan (I switched away from .NET and their platforms a few years ago, switched to Mac, etc).
But I use VS Code, it really is a great little editor with a good ecosystem.
The JavaScript support pulled me in, but it's a pretty decent Rust environment now as well!
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#4VS Code solves different problems then IntelliJ, PyCharm and Atom. I'm not sure this is a fair comparison. For example, I wouldn't ever code a full Java stack in VS Code. I'd go straight to IntelliJ.
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#5VSCode is fast, stable, and the plugin ecosystem really beats Sublime Text at this point. I was skeptical because Microsoft but it is hands down my favorite editor.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#6> However, it seems that the average C# or Java engineer who goes through our process does less well than the average Ruby or Go engineer. I have no idea why.
Given that they have the test info... and they're the ones deciding pass/fail... it's a bit strange they "have no idea why". Well, perhaps just this person doesn't?
Are people not finishing the projects? Do the projects have syntax errors in them? Or logical bugs? What metrics do they use for "pass/fail"?
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#7The "live shared coding" angle in VSCode makes it a great option in many areas where there's a need for it. People have been asking jetbrains for this for a decade, and there's nothing on the horizon as far as I can tell.
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#8One of my favorite things about VS Code is how usable it is with its default configuration, and how easy it is to customize to my liking. I found Atom and Sublime Text very frustrating in that regard.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#9Another interesting angle on this is that VS Code is free (and open source), while Sublime is proprietary and (nominally) costs $80. I wonder how many people don't use Sublime because of the price? Atom is free too and never surpassed Sublime.
Expressedly, this is my opinion solely, with that said:
I stopped using Sublime and stopped recommending it not because of price (I actually prefer to pay for things when I can) but because the community plugins for my development workflow (PHP + Frontend) is...not great. I also found the distinct lack of API documentation to be frustrating (I'm not above making my own extensions and I very much like Python)
Visual Studio code at least has good front end tooling (The PHP extensions can't handle my large PHP projects, though I am tempted to try the a paid extension on this that I heard works well in Visual Studio proper, also, Twig support plain sucks. I'm not 100% certain if this is a limitation of VS Code or the Extension but it can't find my variables from the PHP files)
I've since moved to a combo of PHPStorm (my daily driver) and Visual Studio Code for Git Merges (I prefer the way you can handle it in VS Code) and doing other misc tasks that I don't want to fire up a PHPStorm instance for.
Same reason I never liked Atom. Tooling always seemed off somehow.
Side note? If you are going to pay for an editor, I recommend any JetBrains product offering.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#10"Do Emacs and Vim users have some other characteristic that makes them more likely to succeed during interviews?"
I think the Interview Pass Rates chart makes it clear that the answer is a statistical "Yes", at least for Emacs.