I was also surprised to see how much VS Code has grown in popularity among WakaTime users in such a short amount of time. [1]
https://wakatime.com/static/img/wakatime-editor-usage-2018-1...
The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#262VSCode is fast and it's certainly the best editor/IDE I've used since back when I was a Java dev using Eclipse back in 2006 or so. But I recently opened up Sublime Text to compare some editor behaviour, and the difference in UI performance is astounding . It's possible that VSCode has regressed a bit the last couple of years. It was always faster than Atom. But comparing it to Sublime shows that there are clear advan…
> the difference in UI performance is astounding I could not agree more. I've made numerous attempts to embrace the new hotness that is VSCode but I just cannot get over the performance. Yes, it has some cool features, the plug-in ecosystem is booming, and it sure looks pretty. But at the end of the day none of it is compelling enough for me to put up with the constant lag. It's funny because after several of these e…
I feel like if I took a serious shot at sublime I wouldn't be able to go back due to performance snappiness. Then I'd be miserable because I think vscode is superior in many other ways.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#263There 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…
> I paid for sublime so i will use it
I purchased Sublime when it was the least bad editor out there, but finally realized that I was suffering from the sunk cost fallacy. I still consider it the worst software purchase I've ever made, and it's also why I'm reluctant to pay a single buck for software nowadays.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Because there is almost no reason to learn Go." No, that's not it. It's that if you can only learn one programming language, Go is not a very good choice, so those who learn Go are almost always multilingual ("lingual" as in programming languages, not natural languages). Python and JavaScript are Swiss Army knives with outstanding ecosystems that make them excellent choices if you can only afford one tool. There are…
> My anecdotal experience says that 1) most programmers are monolingual, This surprises me as I've never worked on a nontrivial system that's also a monolingual system. There's nearly always another language to use to get the job done, whether for configuration, scripting/automation, or because backends and UIs are written in different languages, especially for internet-based software.
There's nearly always another language to use to get the job done
Sure, but in most cases programmers spend most of their time only in one 'part' of the system and only really have to know the language that part of written. In general it doesn't matter if the back end server is written in Lisp, Java or APL, as long as it talks to my part of the system in the way it's supposed to.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#265Ok I stopped reading when they started drawing graphs how well the people using certain editors fared better in their test as if the editor could have anything to do with it.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think it's a coincidence that some of the most used and loved desktop applications lately are written in JS/HTML? import_pkt_ws_btc_deribit_v2.py Could it be that it's extremely hard to do these kind of applications in traditional GUI frameworks?
Could it be that many JS devs don't bother to learn how GUI frameworks are able to do stuff where Web is still catching up with the 90's?
You're perhaps more snarky than necessary, but I think you're getting to the core of the problem.
The web has unfortunately made JS a very common first language, and created an army of people who know JS. Then rather than learn, say, C++ and Qt for building cross-plattform GUI, they stick to the language they know even though it leads to inferior results.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#267There 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…
> I paid for sublime so i will use it I purchased Sublime when it was the least bad editor out there, but finally realized that I was suffering from the sunk cost fallacy. I still consider it the worst software purchase I've ever made, and it's also why I'm reluctant to pay a single buck for software nowadays.
Why do you think Sublime Text is the worst software you have purchased? I use it every day as my main text editor and i am very satisfied.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
#268There 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…
I managed to commit node_modules folder to github using VS Code git integration. Luckily it was on a smaller test project. My fault but there was a UI failure.
All I did was press Commit which apparently decided to stage and commit everything under the root folder.
It didn't do this in other projects so who knows what was different.
This is how credential files must get committed to github every day.
If VS Code is going to be smart about so many other things, then there should be some sort of warning for major code affecting changes.
You are about to push 5000 files to master repo inluding some that appear to be widely used libraries, are you sure that is what you want ?
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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> fantastic demonstration of why i exclusively use git from a command prompt What's described in that github issue happened to me as well the first time I used git via Visual Studio. I normally don't do that, but something told me to make a zip of everything before using git in VS. So that saved me big time. Why in the world are the deletions not pointed to the Recycle Bin??? That's what it's there for.
The deletions are made through git, and windows git does not use the recycle bin, presumably because it's a linux-first tool
It doesn't use the recycle bin on Linux either.
Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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I feel like you should spend some time with Go. If I were building a startup, I would probably choose Go for core infra for being able to move quickly as a developer and write incredibly performant code with about as much mental overhead as most dynamically typed languages. Anecdotally, I've seen it replace Java in quite a few small and medium sized established companies.
> I would probably choose Go for core infra for being able to move quickly as a developer At the company I used to work at it took nearly a 1000 lines to replace an 80 line bash script. So I can't help but laugh at this statement.
How well did the bash script handle exceptions?