VS Code

“there were so many workflow-breaking bugs in each new release of Webstorm that I switched to VS Code”

“There's also the risk that VS Code is a "trusted" application in many enterprises because developers force it to be.”

“VS Code and the GitHub acquisition demonstrated Microsoft's interest in fostering good relations with developers”

“Tools like VS Code do the job well enough for the majority of people, with just enough configurability and much greater ease-of-use.”

“packages in Emacs, but also for VS Code and other IDEs, that make navigating nested s-expressions a breeze”

“On the exact same box running Windows I was able to have VS Code, Chrome with 15+ tabs, terminals, docker, etc. all running with zero issues.”

“I could not get the bindings quite how I wanted in either VS Code or CLion, but I made it tolerable eventually.”

“In toying with VS Code or other 'agent harnesses' I'm always annoyed to find very long verbose system prompts”

“VS Code gives me pretty much everything I need for my daily work without demanding too much from my system”

“we've completely limited what VSCode extensions they can use down to the named folder version. Which sort of sucks”

“it actually exposes the capability to completely customise every aspect of it and extend it with sandboxed extensions”

“How on earth are you not thoroughly testing your changes??? How can something like this slip into a real build?”

“The supposedly expected functionality is very obviously that it marks copilot co-authored code as copilot co-authored, not the bug that is being reverted.”

“I've had combinations of plugins that caused my whole system to freeze up with too much memory usage”

“I use VS Code only grudgingly, but I do think its ergonomics are actually pretty reasonable”

“a battle honed extensible IDE used by zillions and maintained by $$$ has proved itself miles ahead of the environments for alternatives”

“a few people on HN saying how they simply can't live with VS Code's 50ms keystroke latency”

“It's plausible you could do something similar with LMstudio + vscode, I'm just less familiar with that.”

“For C++ development for example CLion vs VS Code (needed plugins installed) is night and day and not to the benefit of VS Code.”

“Even with the work put into configuring VSCode to get it kind of close to it, it still just always feels a bit janky.”

“VSCode is open source and ahead, and getting lots of contributions from different companies.”

“VS Code only got better because it was open source though, the community contributed so much.”

“vscode is pretty smooth at installing the VS Code Server on first connection to a docker container”

“vscode (including their renderers) manages to come in pretty low compared to even Apples native apps”

“VS Code marketing itself as an "AI code editor" is one of many reasons why I would never consider using VS Code.”

“apps like VS Code, Discord, Slack, etc show that with enough effort a team can use those tools to deliver something with relatively much better performance”

“I use the TUI from a terminal tab in VS Code, my agent works with that and the custom extension with a webapp based interface, seamlessly and concurrently”

“at least when I contribute to VSCode, we get to fork the hell out of that codebase as it's MIT licensed”

“if you just want to deploy a quick app from VSCode from your local machine or whatever, it works great”

“AI is able to predict the next world not based on the generic trained data, but in the context of the repo”

“the file trees are so large that when I'd ask a coworker using VSCode to open a file, they'd usually take a few seconds trying to locate it”

“I like vscode for when I need more IDE features than I care to cobble together with plugins”

“Microsoft itself though is currently kinda mismanaging the entire product range between GitHub, VS Code and copilot”

“It guides you to setup only what you need, that was a problem with VSCode that would collect random plugins through time.”

“VSCode was slower than Sublime but had incredible industry supported extensions like Git and Prettier”

“It remains a text editor with some nice extras (syntax highlighting, navigation) but lacking others (debugger, testing, ...)”

“For a feature rich workhorse that you can use for developing almost anything straight out of the box”

“those orgs actually care about their applications and take great effort to make them feel good despite being built on Electron”

“I tried to start VSCode so that I could evaluate it and, maybe, add some info. as to why I find it more difficult to get into, but it just crashes now”

“The biggest advantage is being able to use VS Code's diff views, which I like more than in the terminal.”