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Do you use VS Code? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No way. I'm happy about the stuff it brought (LSP, remote debugging protocol, maybe other stuff), but VSCode itself is just not good enough and always takes a bunch of configuration to get working. It's better than neovim, that's for sure.

If there were an opensource IDE with a GUI (not TUI) that didn't use web rendering to draw its interface, worked on Linux, weren't bought by yet another tech-overlord, and were comparable to a Jetbrains IDE, there's a good chance it'd get my money. Until then, it's Jetbrains for me. I hope they never go public.

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