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by danielcarvalho 3808 days ago
I've had literally the opposite experience. Everything I seemed to need, IntelliJ IDEA magically had. I just ended up uninstalling things like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code. Convenient. Usually it started out as, "I wonder if it can..." and then quickly find the feature that just does what I want.

Even as a Windows user myself, I can't quite articulate what has always bothered me about Visual Studio in general over the years. It seems to have it's own language, terminology, and way of doing things that you have to buy into. And I really don't like that. Let me pick a folder, have that be my project, and edit text really clever like. That's what I want.
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notrom 3808 days ago
Take a look at Visual Studio Code. I too have this (probably unfounded) resistance to using full blown Visual Studio for projects outside of work, but have found Code pretty good for developing Javascript and HTML etc. Nice and light, pick a directory as a project, good GIT integration, reasonable text editor, built in debugger etc.

For me it's a good balance between a straight up text editor and full IDE.

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dsp1234 3808 days ago
like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code.

You don't mention the two things together, but VS has the server explorer which you can use to hook in to a database and do administrative tasks (both design and data viewing)

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gelasio 3807 days ago
Also pgAdmin is about as feature-ful as Notepad is so it's not hard to do something a little better.

Besides server explorer, VS also has SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) obviously only for SQL Server, but I've never seen anything even in the same league as SSDT for any open source database.

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