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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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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Nope, at work, we use JetBrains IDEs and for my personal stuff, I'm using Kate.

Seeing the hype wave for VS Code was so bizarre, like millions of people discovered features that were just bog standard in IDEs for a long time. Two colleagues tried to sell it to me and the features they chose to do so with, were the commit GUI and the embedded terminal.

My best guess is that if you weren't a programmer, then you didn't use an IDE and there just wasn't many good editors on Windows. Like, Notepad++ has been there since forever, but it doesn't have that many features. And Sublime has been around for a long time, too, but never made it big.

[-] balder1993@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

The problem with Sublime is that it’s a paid one, and not everybody wants to pay for something that is perceived by the community as something that should be free and open source.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 6 points 1 month ago

It's paid like WinRAR is paid.

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