I have not used an IDE since I ditched Turbo Pascal in middle school, but now I am at a place where everyone and their mother uses VS Code and so I’m giving it a shot.

The thing is, I’m finding the “just works” mantra is not true at all. Nothing is working out of the box. And then for each separate extension I have to figure out how to fix it. Or I just give up and circumvent it by using the terminal.

What’s even the point then?

IDK maybe its a matter of getting used to something new, but I was doing fine with just vim and tmux.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Well it may absolutely suck, but they’ll tell you

    • it’s everywhere
    • once you learn a few tricks it’s great
    • you’ll get used to a non-intuitive macro and command setup
    • adapt your entire workflow around it and you’re fine
    • it’s … fast?
    • it has such power

    The last two are lies. And I was talking about vi here, in the hopes you’ll get it. And like when I first used vi, the best thing was learning there were alternatives.