[mplanchard]

What about VSCode? Seems like almost all the devs I know use it, regardless of their feelings about Microsoft products otherwise.

[PlutoIsAPlanet]

VSCode is popular due to the lack of a free alternative with the same feature set.

Jetbrains Fleet is already looking to be a let down, with it being a larger resource hog by VSCode.

[explorigin]

Jetbrains justifies the cost for me. I can easily recoup the cost in productivity over VSCode.

[nicce]

If you project is big enough, resource cost is more reasonable. VSCode starts lagging while Jetbrains products can scroll file with 500k lines without problem.

[Pannoniae]

In my experience, it's mostly the less experienced use it. It's electron shovelware, with horrible typing latency and memory usage.

No matter how hard MS wants to push it, those don't change. If I need a text editor I use one, if I need a full IDE I use those. This Frankenstein abomination has zero purpose.

[cassianoleal]

The vast majority of people I work with use VS Code, from recent graduates to very senior and seasoned devs, myself included.

I don't like Microsoft, and before VS Code I had high hopes for Atom. VS Code became nearly everything I wanted on an editor.

I could never get used to "full IDEs". I find them awkward and I always feel constrained by them, not in a good way.

I experience zero typing latency on VS Code (and I'm very sensitive to that). Granted, memory usage could be better but along with the browser it's my main work tool so I don't mind much that it uses a considerable amount, as long as it doesn't bog down my machine.

Of course, to each their own. I hate Microsoft as much as the next person and I wish someone would step in and give me a modular editor with extensive LSP support and an excellent extensions marketplace to replace it. I would consider paying for such a product if it was adequate.

I had high hopes that Jetbrains Fleet would be that product, but after having tried its pre-release a few times I'm not holding my breath.

I say all this as a former hardcore emacs user.

[keyle]

Same path. On a mac I've been using Zed. If you're on a mac you could consider it. On the downside it's back to lldb for debugging, but that's not a big deal.

[snoopen]

I love Linux and despise $MS in general. VS Code is the only thing from them I genuinely enjoy using. Since most of it is open source I have some confidence it will escape the usual $MS enshitification, or at least VS Codium. There's just not anything I've come across that's as versatile.