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by samuell 3722 days ago
I have moved part-time from vim to vscode, for Go work.

Some reasons:

- Having the full type info for every single thing in the code with simply hovering over it (not just when typing)

- Ability to "peak at definition", to get a little interspersed window with the definition of functions etc, embedded right into your editor.

- Out-of-the box file tree with single click opening, and window management (I use a lot of powerful vim commands, but window management just was too much for my head).

- Maybe something more I've forgot.

In general, the out-of-the box experience is so much greater than vim. I know you can replicate most of the above with a super-fancy setup, but I just don't find the time to get my head around much more than http://github.com/fatih/vim-go and a few personal .vimrc tweaks.

Now as others have mentioned, I just hope for a more feature-complete vim-mode in VSCode.