Goodbye VS Code

Yep, I stopped using VS Code as my daily text editor. In this video I go over a few reasons why I decided to move onto a new IDE, and some of the pros and cons of the new IDE that I use.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - 2:48 Why I switched away from VS Code
2:48 - 7:45 Demoing the new IDE I switched to
7:45 - 8:32 Closing thoughts

These guys are good in what they do. Jetbrains really kicks ass.
Im still using VSCode tho.

[truefirstmagic]

As a multi-decade developer that spent most of my career coding in vim, I switched over to jetbrains products (with a vim plugin, of course) a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. Best in class IDEs, and the price is actually quite reasonable.

[judahwilson]

It's been my opinion for a long time that I'd really prefer an IDE dedicated to the thing you're doing, having most features out of the box.

[lshadowSFX]

vscode is the serious best. you add whatever functionality you want, sure a bit of time needed, but after you are done, you can sync settings, it's all ready without needing to config stuff over and over and... it's free. the amount of quality and for free, it's insane.

[sonluuh]

JB family is IDE, not text editor. The reason behind their convenience is that they bundle utilities tools together (linter, formatter, code completer, ...). They make you happy. Text editor is for editting text. Nano/sed/vim are created for that purpose. But you can make the text editor become IDE with the extensions. You just dont want to manage these extensions yourself. :D

[brenotome]

The thing that gets me is stability. Python is my main language, and i can never rely on the test explorer in vscode, it also get lost with imports sometimes, pycharm have less features, by every single thing they add works well and keep working.

I won't switch for Python, but for C++, Clion can figure out itself even on very weird projects, on embeded system's that have very limited debug capabilities, having an editor that can point out your mistakes early and don't get lost on imports makes a lot of difference.

[tfcttqg]

Thanks for the video, my school has both visual studio's and jetBrain's IDEs installed and I don't know what's the difference between them and which is better

[Greenmarty]

I'm using more of IntelliJ but i assume it'll be same - >
The pre - commit analysis is just matter of toggling checkbox in settings. +
In JetBrain's IDEs -> double click shift anywhere and write literally anything from your code, settings, gradle/ maven tasks, ... ect., that is part of IDE or your project and IDE will shortcut you there or even let's you run things and flip switches directly from search results. It's productive way to quick setting annoying things fast.

[stashladki]

About the warning you think are redundant for you: try right-clicking on them, it should provide you a setting right there to hide that particular type of warning or suggestion. You basically configure those settings naturally as you write more code and bumping into behaviours you'd like to change!

[jamesdenmark]

What you do with all the extensions? Can you still use the same or not possible?

[sivuyilemagutywa]

I moved from VSCode to Neovim and once you use vim you join a community, so you will eventually spend time configuring. I have been using vim for like 2 years now and I also think Vim also helps with the burnout and the best part is I never have to leave the terminal. I use a potato PC, it's only 16g of ram, VSCode (Electron) + Chrome (I open lots of tabs), use like 50%. I have never tried Webstorm, but I did use Sublime.

[build-things]

I love jetbrains ide's.. I use webstorm, intellij and rider at work. All amazing especially for executing tests and my two fav hot keys (shift shift) (ctrl shift f) for searching

[SamKling]

Big jetbrains fan, I personally use intellij for kotlin but have used webstorm before and also preferred it over other editors.

[gavinmurambadoro]

This is the functionality that an IDE provides to a developer. JetBrains IDEs as well as Microsoft's Visual Studio (not code) fall in the same bracket. VS Code is just a lightweight editor whose basic functionality can be boosted by extensions, but I don't think it will reach the same level as what these IDEs provide by default (..yet)

[youvegotmail]

I've used IntelliJ for Java projects and that is THE most powerful ide I've ever used. It takes take quite a bit of load on my computer, but it's a really awesome ide. I'm still using VSCode for now. Also, the testing is great on IntelliJ.

[rhetttheehitman]

Yeah, I've been using JetBrains products for the last few years and haven't looked back.

I really love the functionality it has right out the gate. However, when needed to customize individual-specific preferences, it's easy to do in the preferences window.

Additionally, I love the fact I can go from Javascript to Go to Rust or whatever and back while having the exact same functionality, support and behavior across all languages. It feels like it's very simple to get right into the action on this platform.

[RolandAyala]

Thanks for this video. I'm a long-time Webstorm user and still have an active sub, but I switched over to VS code about 6 mo ago because free (my subscription fees are getting out of hand), stronger plug-in ecosystem (IMO), and, yea, sexier UI -- looks and feels great. Still, I never was able to fully wean myself off of WS because comparatively a pita to get back to a happy path when creating ad-hoc projects for prototyping, etc. Your video inspired me to go back and try WS on my mainline project again, only to realize all the niceties WS provides over VS code. Just goes to show you get what you pay for.

[Kevinschart]

I'm a purist and minimalist at heart. I started coding on BBEdit. I liked it because it didn't hold my hand. Forced me to hone my debugging. I tried Webstorm and it was just to much. Went back to BBEdit. Finally gave VS Code a shot. It worked, it had jupyter notebooks, and it was free. I'm not switching. You remind me of the music producers that switch from DAW to DAW.

[jmnoob]

I fell in love with vim keybinds. Used them in vs-code for a few months before someone showed me a vim config and that got me into using actual (neo)vim with custom configs. Then I spent tons of time perfecting my config. And I still don't quite like it.

I love that there is always more to learn with Vim, I could probably learn a new keybind every week for a long while. But customization does kinda get out of hand, with so many ways of setting up the editor.

[JustBCWi]

You're moving to a $150/year subscription because you don't want to think about your editor? I've used VSCode for a few years now. Apart from setting the theme, font and a couple other things, I rarely---if ever---adjust the settings. Only if a default is patently annoying, which is rare. Did they comp you for this product placement?