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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 Delmania »

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 suspect it's because most Java and C# engineers are "enterprise" engineers who work on mostly CRUD applications. Go and Ruby would be more aligned for a startup. Given that TripleByte's interview process is more technical and computer science oriented, I'm not surprised they score less. It's mainly about the types of problems you solve at work and how well you keep technical knowledge fresh.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by reaperducer »

Because of the popularity of VS Code on HN, I decided to give it a try. It's good. Much better than Electron or Atom for my workflow. And much faster IME.

The one thing that keeps me from switching from my current IDE is the lack of Whitesmiths brace formatting. I'd pay up to $15 for a Whitesmiths plugin. Until then, I can't change. But I'll keep checking.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by dman »

reaperducer wrote: post #43

Because of the popularity of VS Code on HN, I decided to give it a try. It's good. Much better than Electron or Atom for my workflow. And much faster IME. The one thing that keeps me from switching from my current IDE is the lack of Whitesmiths brace formatting. I'd pay up to $15 for a Whitesmiths plugin. Until then, I can't change. But I'll keep checking.

What language do you write?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by munchbunny »

reaperducer wrote: post #43

Because of the popularity of VS Code on HN, I decided to give it a try. It's good. Much better than Electron or Atom for my workflow. And much faster IME. The one thing that keeps me from switching from my current IDE is the lack of Whitesmiths brace formatting. I'd pay up to $15 for a Whitesmiths plugin. Until then, I can't change. But I'll keep checking.

From a point of anthropological curiosity, do you work in a team where everyone uses that style of brace indentation?

Is it actually common and I've just never encountered it before?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by copperx »

reaperducer wrote: post #43

Because of the popularity of VS Code on HN, I decided to give it a try. It's good. Much better than Electron or Atom for my workflow. And much faster IME. The one thing that keeps me from switching from my current IDE is the lack of Whitesmiths brace formatting. I'd pay up to $15 for a Whitesmiths plugin. Until then, I can't change. But I'll keep checking.

In which codebases is Whitesmiths formatting used? It looks so wrong if you're used to any of the other styles.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by munchbunny »

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.

Separately from being my JS IDE of choice, VS Code has for the most part replaced Notepad++. It's quite good at being a general purpose "heavyweight" text editor.

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by purple_ducks »

chadash wrote: post #33
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 have a theory on this. For most interview style coding problems (which tend to be algorithmic in nature), scripting languages such as python or ruby: 1) are less verbose 2) don't require worrying about typing 3) have really easy ways to manipulate strings, iterate, etc., which are often found in interview style problems Java and C# have many advantages over python and ruby, but I think that they put you at an inher…

Maybe because with Go, there's less ways to skin a cat compared to each of the other languages? Less expressive language - just hammer out code worry free about being judged on method or code style?

Re: The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Post by macjohnmcc »

jtms wrote: post #26
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

I actually enjoy using Rider on macOS over using Visual Studio for Mac with C#.
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