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by bayindirh 499 days ago
That's not the question. The question was "you can change the toolbars and shortcuts in JetBrains Rider, no?"

I presume the answer is yes, from what you said. Then it becomes less of an issue, if not an non-issue.

IDEs and code editors are tools which we live with for a long time. Nobody expects their defaults to be unchanged. Otherwise we'd be all using notepad.exe for coding.

Not having the defaults organized by your tastes is not a valid reason for disqualifying a tool out of the gate.

As a counter example, Electron's font rendering is nothing to drool over, from my perspective, and doesn't give an extra point for using it in my case.
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Nullabillity 499 days ago
An IDE's literal whole selling point is supposedly being a packaged product that you can just pick up and run with, at the price of not being particularly good at any of the things it does (and usually being pretty expensive).

If you still need to customize everything then, well, what did you actually gain over assembling your environment by yourself from actually competent pieces?

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bayindirh 499 days ago
I don’t think so, because the IDE doesn’t carry the language tooling with it, but interfaces with the tooling you already have in place.

That said, every IDE is opinionated about workflows, and if you’re open to adapt to that, the defaults makes sense. Otherwise you slowly hammer it to the shape you want.

For me an IDEs greatest selling point or the infinite flexibility it provides.

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Kuinox 499 days ago
> Nobody expects their defaults to be unchanged.

The OC point was that VS Code UX "is a mess by comparison", and VS Code UX is fully configurable, therefor if you have a problem with VS Code UX, you are complaining about it's defaults settings.

Also Jetbrains IDEs font rendering is simply awful, it doesn't hold the comparison to electron: https://i.imgur.com/u4ZV2Kd.png

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