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The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by hprotagonist »

There are some warts, but it seems nice from afar. The biggest wart is/was the "FUCK FUCK FUCK" git clean vs git reset UX error: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 . This is a fantastic demonstration of why i exclusively use git from a command prompt -- i know what will happen and nobody's going to reinvent terms to put on buttons that just confuse me.

In my life:

- I'm committed to emacs for org-mode and LaTeX editing and daily use.

- I paid for sublime so i will use it -- and multiple cursors everywhere is a boon for quick and dirty data munging.

- I write serious python code in pycharm.

- I write serious c# in full blown Visual Studio

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by asituop »

ammon wrote: post #2

Another 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.

Be careful that's it's only open-source if you build it yourself or if you use VS-Codium (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium).

The VS-Code that everyone uses is under a Microsoft License and includes close source Microsoft telemetry (spyware?) and user data collection :

https://code.visualstudio.com/License/

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by scrollaway »

ammon wrote: post #2

Another 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.

Edit: Disregard, I don't know wtf I'm talking about.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by ginko »

ammon wrote: post #2

Another 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.

What's the point investing time in learning a proprietary tool when the developers could take it away from you at any moment?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by nepeckman »

lowercased wrote: post #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 bu…

I think the author is saying they have no idea why C# and Java devs are worse on average than Ruby and Go devs. I'm sure they know the specific reason those devs fail, but are trying to understand the more general trends that lead to higher rates of failure. I would guess that this is another instance of the python paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html).

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by emacsuserrrr »

NotANaN wrote: post #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.

Maybe it’s because the editor was taught to students at places like MIT, Berkeley, etc?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by neurobashing »

scrollaway wrote: post #13
ammon wrote: post #2

Another 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.

Edit: Disregard, I don't know wtf I'm talking about.

It's right there on the home page:

"Sublime Text is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.

Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform."

Are we talking about some other sublime?

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