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by ironman1478 589 days ago
Vim is great but I think VSCode really is the one tool to rule them all going forward. It's extremely well designed, snappy, and I think does the correct thing of first treating everything as a text file and allowing plugins to provide semantic meaning. I never liked visual studio because it was too specific to writing software and using the GUI to do what I wanted. Editing msbuild files directly was a pain for example. If I wanted to do some shell scripting or system debugging, I had to leave that environment.

Whereas with VSCode, I really never have to leave the VSCode environment to do what I want. I can pop open a shell within VSCode and don't have to switch windows. I can easily open random files not associated with my project and VSCode does the right thing (usually). It opens images easily, renders markdown well, etc. my favorite feature is that you can pipe cli output directly to VSCode in the shell and then it opens a tab displaying that output. You'd be so surprised how often that feature comes in handy.
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syndicatedjelly 589 days ago
> Vim is great but I think VSCode really is the one tool to rule them all going forward.

I really hope you’re wrong about that. I don’t want to be ruled by another Microsoft product

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ironman1478 589 days ago
I mean, nothing stops you from not using it. It's just a really well designed piece of software and it does a good job of getting out the way something a lot of IDEs don't do well (visual studio for example).
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andreasha 588 days ago
>pipe cli output directly to VSCode in the shell and then it opens a tab displaying that output

Example from VSCode Terminal: $ echo hello | code -

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toprerules 587 days ago
You can do all the things you mentioned in Vim. I also can't imagine that you would be comparing the performance of VSCode and Vim, my vim with all of its plugins and vim script starts up in 95ms. That's faster than the threshold of human perception.

I think you missed the point of my comment you are replying to. You can get things done in any editor. The point is that Vim/Emacs have been around for decades and last your whole career, VSCode has been around for a fraction of the time and killed off the previous editor, Atom, that everyone though was "the editor".

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mixmastamyk 589 days ago
Nice try, microsoft. There’s way too many floss options to bother with surveillance capitalism tools and lock-in/e³.
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