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In my opinion, this is how IDEs should be - make something better described as a text editor (like a fresh install of vim, sublime, or atom), and allow users to add more things to the light-weight(ish?) base. So many IDEs are overkill. Text editors with the right plugins can accomplish the same things but also be much more lightweight, and help you achieve a balance between "IDE" and "text editor"
I hope they address memory consumption at some point too.
Yep, I was using Atom for 6 months, I wanted to give a solid go. But now I am back to sublime text. I can't really put my finger on it, but sublime text is just snappy and reliable in ways that Atom isn't. Got really tired of Atom lagging because I'm typing too fast, got tired of lockups and hanging. VS Code has very simillar issues too. It was a nice experiment (can we do editors in HTML/JS?), but I'm convinced nati…
Honestly can't see why I'd use this - I have all the professional grade IDEs I need, why do I need one that is written in JS, is slower and consumes 5x more memory? Not to mention IDEs already have their own extension stores too. This seems like an 'IDE-lite', which doesn't make much sense in a world where professional grade IDEs are free.
Admittedly I don't think Atom is a very worthwhile text editor, but using an augmented text editor as an IDE is a very common practice.
In my opinion, this is how IDEs should be - make something better described as a text editor (like a fresh install of vim, sublime, or atom), and allow users to add more things to the light-weight(ish?) base. So many IDEs are overkill. Text editors with the right plugins can accomplish the same things but also be much more lightweight, and help you achieve a balance between "IDE" and "text editor"
Also Visual Studio Code kind of is like this to some degree? You start with basics, and add on what you need, their D plugin is pretty decent, and their Rust one has gotten pretty popular by the looks of the last Rust survey. Also their .NET Core support is pretty much the best on VS Code compared to on other editors from what I've seen, their Sublime Text plugin seems abandoned.
Honestly can't see why I'd use this - I have all the professional grade IDEs I need, why do I need one that is written in JS, is slower and consumes 5x more memory? Not to mention IDEs already have their own extension stores too. This seems like an 'IDE-lite', which doesn't make much sense in a world where professional grade IDEs are free.
> [Utilize] the power of language servers to provide deep syntactical analysis of your code and projects. Having my code analyzed by others' servers just so I can have better autocomplete does not sound like something I want.