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by wokwokwok 1025 days ago
Compared to what? To visual studio? It's bad. To rider? It's bad. To the level of support in vscode, for example, for typescript? It's bad.

To using a potato? It's pretty good! To using a plain-text editor? Pretty sweet! To using the old omnisharp plugin? haha... is there anything that isn't better than that?

Seriously though, if you want an honest answer: It's not that bad... but, its frustrating after using a different editor. They're now investing in making it better (1), and it is better than it was a year ago.

Expect to see more improvements in this space.

..but like, yeah. Right now, it kind of still sucks if you're working in C# full time, compared to the serious alternatives. You can see common themes on the issue tracker (2), if you want a less anecdotal response, or perhaps dig through a couple of the juicy threads (3), that give you sense of the state of play right now.

tldr; watch this space; if you're already heavily invested vscode, give it a whirl... but, if you're using a mostly-c# code base, you probably won't want to have it as your primary editor right now.

[1] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-cshar...

[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues

[3] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/329