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by legohead 3514 days ago
I'm going to have to rate this as "probably never going to work". I really wanted it to succeed, because I actually like Microsoft and want a new editor, but the pure amount of ignorance this thing began with and continues to display is just too much.

* Didn't launch with tabs, a plugin system, or code folding

* Still no Projects or Workspace. You can open a "Folder", which behaves like a workspace, but you can only have one open at a time.

* When you search/find-in-files, it uses the left UI element, which is just dumb for search in code as you can only see about 20 characters per line. Yeah you can expand the window, but do you want to do that every time?

* Can't drag the UI elements and attach them somewhere else, which is a common staple of modern GUIs. This would fix the search "problem"

* No support for FTP or SSH as far as I can tell (I do see an extension or two)

When it wasn't launched with tabs, I gave it the benefit of the doubt thinking they were just releasing something Alpha to get a feel for the market. But they consistently can't put out common sense, modern day features. I feel like a couple guys at MS got bored and decided to randomly work on an editor without researching what is great about other editors first.

Sorry for the harshness of this post, I'm just disappointed, and love code editors.

1 comments

You can have different instances of VSC open if you want to use 2 different workspaces at the same time. On Windows I just right-click the task bar and do "New Window" for that.