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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] 1 points 1 month ago

I use neovim, with my own built configs. You can literally configurate/program everything in your editor.

I'd say that IDEs are becoming less and less common these days. Vscode is definitely the most popular editor, but through the language server protocol, we have more options than there used to be.

Personalized Development Environments (PDE) are becoming more common. Vscode is one to a lesser extend (it's just a text editor if you don't add extensions), but in my opinion, neovim definitely does this best by far.

It's been some time, but I remember my confusion when I was an amateur and hardly knew the difference between visual studio and vscode. I agree it can be very confusing at the start. Just go get the extension for that programming language or framework and you should be fine. Or maybe ask your colleagues, as they use it already.

If you want a real idea, her brains products are probably best, many of them have a community version, but see about getting a license if you need it.