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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 pavanagrawal123 »

asituop wrote: post #12
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/

I recently contributed VSCodium windows support, and IMO it's not too big of a different from the binaries that MS provides. The only few differences are the telemetry endpoints that are in the normal binary, that can be disabled through the setting, and some other MS specific branding

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by nystorm »

sbilstein wrote: post #5

VSCode 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.

I'm also skeptical of microsoft products, but they have come a long way since getting their new CEO. I've gained a lot of respect from them for better integration with non-windows platforms.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by avip »

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…

If I recall correctly the test is 100% automated. Write code, run tests. Answer multiple choice. Humans and their bias need not apply.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by halfnhalf »

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 he means he has no idea why candidates of those languages are less likely to meet his pass criteria

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by ianamartin »

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.

Wat?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by jtms »

brokenwren wrote: post #4

VS 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.

There’s a jetbrains (IntelliJ) flavored ide for basically everything - even c#! I prefer Rider for doing c# in Unity3D over VS or VSCode because it seems muc more performant and the vim plug-in is way better

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by wasted_intel »

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.

No, it isn't. From the website:

  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.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by tossaccount123 »

brokenwren wrote: post #4

VS 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.

VS code is a jack of all trades editor, obviously it's not going to be able to match more specialized editors

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

> Do Emacs and Vim users have some other characteristic that makes them more likely to succeed during interviews?

I think it comes down to users of those editors probably are used to keeping code/libraries in their head more. IDEs tend to suggest a lot to you and if you're not used to having that happen you could get more nervous during whiteboarding rituals.

Edit: I guess this really doesn't apply as their interview process is on the web.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by bassman9000 »

hprotagonist wrote: post #11

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 a…

amen

people look at me like I'm an old crazy dude because I don't use a git UI or eclipse, or intellij, or from sublime. Git already has plenty of quirks, adding another layer of unknown on top of it is a no-go

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