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by preciousoo 415 days ago
If the VS Code team are delivering the product, I have some amount of trust. If it’s the VS team, good luck to everyone involved
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I use vscode for personal javascript projects but the time I spent on a .NET team using VS was an incredible downgrade compared to years and years of intellij. I ended up leaving because tech debt/bugs kept causing weekly overnight on call incidents that we were never given time to fix, but when they asked who wanted a Rider license I got myself on the list immediately.
Indeed, Copilot within Visual Studio is nowhere close as good as Copilot within VSCode, and even that is still worse than Cursor in my experience.
VSCode is still miles behind for .NET and C++ tooling, have a bit of fate on VS team.
What’s the use of being miles ahead if you’re traveling in the wrong direction?
Doesn't look like, given Windows market share.
Not just Windows. I find .net a better choice for backend/microservices than Java, for example
Tell us you're not developing for microcontrollers without telling us you're not developing for microcontrollers.
VS developers are okay, it is the VS product managers that are The problem