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by olejorgenb 657 days ago
> VSCode is very slightly more capable than plain text editor

What? For which languages are you talking about? For python, VSCode is leaps and bounds ahead of PyCharm if your project is well typed.

JetBrains offer a remote solution now though: https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/

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I work in Go. My company keeps trying to push us onto their VSCode based remote environment. “Find all references” doesn’t, “go to definition” works maybe 30% of the time, and the Go LSP daemon needs to force killed dozens of times in a working session, taking several minutes to recover each time. The autocomplete suggestions are about 3x as likely to be from the VSCode fuzzy matching thing or Copilot slop as actually existing symbols that type check in context.

JetBrains Projector and Gateway meanwhile lock up or outright crash several times an hour; text input and scrolling are not smooth.