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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#171

"Update All Extensions" Nice! It was a huge PITA before to close and reopen the editor once for every extension that had to be updated. One of my last big gripes about VSC, gone.

There's also an `extensions.autoUpdate` which lets you not worry about it again.

awesome, thanks for the tip

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#172

"Update All Extensions" Nice! It was a huge PITA before to close and reopen the editor once for every extension that had to be updated. One of my last big gripes about VSC, gone.

There's also an `extensions.autoUpdate` which lets you not worry about it again.

awesome, thanks for the tip

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Anyone use VS Code for Ruby/Rails? Equal or better than Atom/Sublime? I switched from sublime to atom recently but atom is slow (I know I know) and VS Code seems well regarded so willing to give it a try.

Atom/Sublime? Those aren't even in the same category.

do you mean that in a good way or a bad way?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

It was for many years (because the others didn't exist)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

It was for many years (because the others didn't exist)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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I was about to try one of these fancy new browser based editors again, but now I'm confused. Shouldn't opening a directory be O(1)? I just opened the chromium trunk in sublime and it took 0.2 seconds, regardless of whether it was currently running or not. Why would one ever use a text editor that has perceptible latency when doing everyday tasks? 3 seconds isn't even latency, it's a freeze tbh.

I feel we are comparing apple to oranges here: sublime (a text editor) will simply list files & directories in the top level folder when you add a folder to the projects while an IDE (thinking mostly of Eclipse here, but I assume other IDEs aren't that different) will parse every single file to build ASTs, symbol lookup tables and all these things that you either love or cannot stand.

VS Code (a "smart" text editor not to be confused with Visual Studio an IDE) doesn't parse C++ code (which is what Chromium consists off) in the default configuration. And even if you have the C++ extension enabled it doesn't parse any code until later.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#178
post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was about to try one of these fancy new browser based editors again, but now I'm confused. Shouldn't opening a directory be O(1)? I just opened the chromium trunk in sublime and it took 0.2 seconds, regardless of whether it was currently running or not. Why would one ever use a text editor that has perceptible latency when doing everyday tasks? 3 seconds isn't even latency, it's a freeze tbh.

I feel we are comparing apple to oranges here: sublime (a text editor) will simply list files & directories in the top level folder when you add a folder to the projects while an IDE (thinking mostly of Eclipse here, but I assume other IDEs aren't that different) will parse every single file to build ASTs, symbol lookup tables and all these things that you either love or cannot stand.

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

Maybe not $70.. but I always find myself going back to it.
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