[veidr]

My day job is TypeScript all day long, so like all but one quintillionth of one percent of TypeScript developers, I use VS Code all day long, too.

I'm extremely happy with its development, too; I think the team behind it has done as good a job as I have personally ever seen of both a.) delivering consistent improvements that excite the daily users, and b.) running an open source project.

Still, I absolutely think we are all better off with a vendor-nonspecific, open-source focused competitor.

I mean, once upon a time Microsoft Internet Explorer was the best browser for the Mac, too. There's probably enough awesome in the VS Code project to keep it from being corrupted by Microsoft's corporate priorities — and competition will help keep it that way, in addition to providing a possible alternative if that doesn't happen.

[oorza]

I'm the local TS evangelist. Exactly no one I've seen who's tried WebStorm has switched back to VSCode. They consume all of the same LSP APIs that VSCode does from the LS, but they have all their IDE goodies as well.

[veidr]

Nice to meet you! I am the first person you've met who has tried WebStorm but then switched back to VSCode!

I bought it and gave it a whirl, but I went back.

Mainly because VS Code is much faster, and has a more normal UI (native open/save dialogs, way way better file browser, etc).

Also because the development velocity seems much faster. Every single VS Code major update has goodies in it that I personally want (plus blah blah whatever that I don't) and they come out once a month almost!

But I am curious (especially since I do still have the WebStorm license) what are some of the "IDE goodies" that give WebStorm the advantage in your view?

[jopsen]

Hmm, what I liked about sublime was that it was fast and let me do text really fast too.. other than that it got out of the way.

Everything I need is on Ctrl+p or Ctrl+shift+p.

vscode is like sublime to me, just seems the language completion got useful.