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by lamarcke 1283 days ago
I'm having a similar experience to you. I've tested almost all pre-made configs (that differ in maybe, 2 plugins and different keybinds) and my experience wasn't been so good.

I like the visuals, i like being able to work in the terminal, i like how slim it is. But debugging, or anything that closely resembles anything other than opening a text file and typing text, usually boils down hacking a bunch of plugins together.

My biggest problem has been the debugging part, i want all my attention in my code while i'm debugging, and i can't even seem to get started in getting DAP to work. I have hacked some random plugins together that resemble an UI, but it's still very simple, and doesn't work out of the box.

In the end, i'm trying really hard, setting up random plugins, reading docs and etc, just to have CLOSE to what VS Code can offer me, and nowhere close what Jetbrains does (the DB tools alone make it worth it)

I also don't like VSCode, mind you. I don't like the approach of using extensions as building blocks, generally because they depend on random people (that are almost always really competent) for maintaining, and who cares if they stop working? No one to blame.

I will probably resort to using Jetbrains IntelliJ and the IdeaVim plugin, which did work fine on my last testing.