[oselhn]

I do not understand what people like about vscode. If I ignore insane resource consumption this is at most average IDE (the only real benefit over sublime "text editor" is integrated debugger). This is most preferred editor at work so I am forced to work with it and there are some of the most serious issues I have:

1. Only one side panel, so I can't see outline, test results and project files at the same time as I am used to see on widescreen monitors in other IDEs.

2. Language servers are still not comparable to solutions offered by java IDEs and in case of C++ they are worse than anything else I used.

3. Python extension constantly forgets and founds unit test. There is little support for unit test in other languages.

4. Official C++ extension despite being completely useless consumes several gigabytes of space for "indexed" files (I wonder if it is so bad to not hurt sales of Visual Studio). I also tried to use clangd which is better but there is still a lot of work to be done before it is useful.

I like sublime rust support for really small projects and eclipse support for larger projects (which is not ideal) but I have not coded anything serious in rust yet, so I do not know if there is some good IDE.

[Matthias247]

For C++ try the cquery extension. It's pretty good. It mostly helped me to provide IDE support (full code completion and navigation) for a project that wasn't supported by Visual Studio or any other IDE (embedded project based on gcc and a hacky makefile).

[Waterluvian]

It works well enough for the 6 languages I use weekly. I'm honestly too busy doing all the other engineering tasks that don't happen inside Vscode to really care that it's not perfect. I don't live in vscode that much each week to really care.

[Rusky]

> 4. Official C++ extension despite being completely useless consumes several gigabytes of space for "indexed" files (I wonder if it is so bad to not hurt sales of Visual Studio).

I chuckled at this, because the implementation is actually shared between the official C++ extension and Visual Studio. That extra space usage is likely the recent addition of automatic PCH generation (to VS Code, VS has done that for a long time).

[lenkite]

I bought and use JetBrains CLion (C++ IDE) precisely for these reasons. I only use VSCode for HTML/JS/CSS and as a markdown editor. For plain editing I just use VIM. For medium-scale projects, VSCode tends to take enormous amounts of resources.

[nullwasamistake]

Vscode has great Typescript and JS support. Arguably the best of any editor. I still use jetbrains for other languages, it's really hit or miss.