[kvakva]

Curious about people who switched to something like Webstorm from VS Code. I've tried it for Typescript development and didnt find much of a difference. I can say webstorm has better , more clean ui for Git, but that's it. Certainly issue was that I could only try it shortly on simple project. Would love it here about some more example from other where to see the differences.

Btw I am pretty impressed with Quick fix and autocomplete functionality for VS code. It's IMHO pretty great for text editor.

[arcturus17]

Right now I'm primarily using PyCharm, but I made the switch from VSCode to Webstorm a few years back. Here's what I liked better:

- The refactoring keyboard shortcuts and facilities (moving functions from one file to another, UX for renaming, etc.)

- I found code introspection and autocomplete to be more accurate

- I perceived WebStorm to run better on my machine. The initial load time was longer, but after that the latency of different actions seemed better (again, this was just my perception, on my machine).

- Preferred how many things came installed by default on WS vs having to install plugins on VSCode.

- The Live Templates feature was better than the equivalent code snippets feature.

- The command palette felt more intuitive, I could find things that occurred to me much easier than in VSCode's equivalent.

- The git UX which you mention

Those are a few things that come to mind. VSCode may have significantly improved in these dimensions over time - I wouldn't know because I only use for writing markdown and sometimes to compare my working code base with another code base in a second window.