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I held out for a year or so after VSCode was released. It felt scummy how MS had swooped in and tried to hijack this new category of editor that GitHub had invented (this was before they'd been acquired, I believe) But once I tried VSCode... man, there was no going back. It was infinitely more performant and cohesive. Atom (with IDE-like features installed) felt so sluggish by comparison. I think the main improvement…
> I held out for a year or so after VSCode was released. It felt scummy how MS had swooped in and tried to hijack this new category of editor that GitHub had invented (this was before they'd been acquired, I believe) Depending on what you consider the "category" to be, Sublime Text (2) was well-established for years before Atom came out, with BBEdit and TextMate before it. Not to mention Kate, Geany, and the various…
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I don’t think that is smart
I was more productive than I suspect someone with just an IDE would have been, considering the volume of complex non-coding issues I needed to learn about and solve.
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I was more productive than I suspect someone with just an IDE would have been, considering the volume of complex non-coding issues I needed to learn about and solve.
How does spending your time learning about things an IDE would have avoided make you "more productive"? That's a pretty clear cut argument that you were less productive as you were doing things manually a tool would have automated. Thereby spending time being unproductive.
It's a pretty clear cut argument that using an IDE as a crutch will inevitably bite you in the ass, and if you want the best possible understanding of the language you're using and all of its related tools you ought not use an IDE as it obfuscates those very things you're trying to learn about.
Even after they promised they'll keep developing it despite of the acquisition: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman... Not surprising. When this stuff happens is always lies because you plan for people to forget about stuff as times goes by, which usually happens.
They continued for 4+ years. That's not lying, that's time passing.
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I was in TextMate all day every day for a long, long time but gradually shifted to Emacs, hilariously, AFTER I quit coding for a living -- because of OrgMode.
That is hilarious!
I mean, I tried to become an emacs person several times when I was still coding, and it just never took. My last phase of programming work was on OS X, so I had friendlier yet still capable options like TextMate, which made shifting to emacs a pretty hard ask.
Then my job shifted to a point where my preferred method of tracking activites/tasks/notes was just falling apart. I was all-in on the GTD-inspired Omnifocus, but what I really wanted was a system where I could intermingle notes with Todo items, and then ask the system to collate a list of the Todos for me dynamically.
Which, as it turns out, is pretty much a description of how OrgMode works. And, sadly, almost nothing else that I've found, and so I use emacs all the time now.
My emacs expertise, though, is pretty limited to things I need to know to be productive with Org.
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woah, as a long time vim user who's been too lazy to switch, this might push me over the edge.
I pair it up with Alacritty on Mac and Linux for a nice performance boost. It will work in iTerm or one of the default Linux terminals, but much slower.
Thanks for the tips! I love HN.
P.S. Any other plugins, tips/tricks you recommend for a vim user jumping into NeoVim/LunarVim?
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Me too. Even if you have a great theme in VSC you're still stuck with the sidebar and the bad Microsoft-y typography choices everywhere.
I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/ great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc
> View: Toggle Activity Bar Visibility
Much nicer, thank you!
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I was under the impression that the "forced" upgrade to Sublime 4 caught quite a few out, and may have been a nail in the coffin. I'm still rocking SLT 3, and it's my go-to for large file handling or just as a simple scratchpad, but development (of SLT) feels like it moves at a snails pace.
> but development (of SLT) feels like it moves at a snails pace. This is how it's always been I think; their model.
I don't think ST needs to move fast. It's a good quality editor. It doesn't need a bunch of new features every couple of months. Just getting a major update once a year is fine imo.
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> How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time? That's a very specific example of collaboration. Remote work is exploding. What about, say, integrated, collaborative debugging or code review? Integrations with things like Slack?
I'm sure the folks at Zed know what they're doing, but this is already possible in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm excited to see how Zed innovates in this space. Examples: - VSCode Live Share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share - JetBrains IDEs Code With Me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me - Standalone https://www.coscreen.co https://duckly.com