| Funny that you should say that. Just met with a group of very senior engineers today and two of them said they weren't using VS Code any more. Instead they used: 1. https://www.trycursor.com/ 2. https://zed.dev/ I'm still on VS Code myself. Cursor at least is just a fork of VS Code with AI features, so you can still use VS Code extensions, so it's something I might try at some point. Zed sounds cool (it's fast; the guy who used it said it made him feel like he was programming in the 90s again, and I know exactly what he means), but I love having all the extensions (a quick search finds no Tailwind extension for Zed, for instance, and I'm really loving the Tailwind autocomplete). Might give it a try at some point, but I doubt I'll change to it. Thing is, I was one of those people who kept jumping to new editors. Every single time it was because the current editor had a serious problem of one flavor or another--and another editor solved that problem. VS Code is likely to be Good Enough for a long time. Zed might gain some adherents like the guy I met today, but I didn't keep trying new editors because I was "on the modern train," but because every other editor sucked in one way or another. All the vims and emacs variants suck. This shouldn't even be a debate, to be honest, but they do suck. If VS Code keeps on its current trajectory (i.e., Microsoft doesn't abandon it), it will likely be the Good Enough editor perpetually. It's already 9 years old and it's still the "modern editor" of choice. And when I suggest people try a modern editor, I didn't even really mean VS Code but really any editor that's modern. Sublime, Atom, Visual Studio, any of the JetBrains editors...anything modern is better than vim or emacs. But some folks trained their fingers and don't want to change. Nothing you can say to them to convince them. As another comment points out, Shakespeare is written in "modern English." It's not about chasing the "modern train" as much as not continuing to use Atom or Neovim when everyone else is using VS Code, and VS Code has become the common IDE of the work environment, is already set up to debug the app everyone is working on, and has all of the extensions everyone needs to be on the same page. |