[cusenses]

Every tools takes getting used to and learning it's quirks. Where there are problems within VS Code, there will be different problems in IntelliJ. I quite like VS Code while disliking IntelliJ. Same old story of differing preferences.

> Someone thought that manually editing JSON files is a suitable GUI for configuring basic settings.

There has been a GUI editor for settings for a while now, as well as the JSON editor.

[jiggawatts]

> Every tools takes getting used to and learning it's quirks.

There's necessary differences and quirks, and there's just... unfathomable hubris by the developers, to the level that it's almost an insult to their user base.

Why not alt-drag? EVERY Microsoft tool uses that shortcut EXCEPT for VS Code!

Was it not written by Microsoft developers? Is it conforming to a standard I've never heard of, a standard that nobody else at Microsoft has ever heard of either?

Why didn't they most simply and most trivially just copy the default keyboard shortcuts from Visual Studio? Wouldn't that have been easier for everyone?

Writing something "new" doesn't meant that you're forced at gunpoint to change standards, ignore commonalities, or just do a bad job. It takes the same coding effort to configure "alt-drag" as it takes to configure "middle-drag"! There is no time saved by being sloppy, or lazy. This isn't a corner being cut to save time, this is a reversing of the direction that the steering wheel has to be turned. That doesn't help you manufacture the car faster or cheaper, and it doesn't help drivers.

( I'm not being flippant, the VS Code team literally flips things for no reason. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27807085 )

[gobookdev]

VS Code has improved so much in such a short period of time, if people are comparing to a 6 months ago there has been endless improvements. I really like Intellij, think it's great as well, but it makes you do things in certain way depending on what language you're using. After learning how VS Code works you can use it however you want with whatever language you want.

[jiggawatts]

I'm on the absolute latest build. All of those issues are from this release.

The previous releases were markedly worse, and absolutely unusable for PowerShell. I've never seen anyone switch from ISE to VS Code willingly. I'm forced, because I'm using some modules that are core-only and required PS 7.0, which works with VS Code only.

It doesn't matter if it has "improved" a lot if it is still by far the worst text editor slash IDE on my computer. I have five others, including two free editors that are better. And faster...