I Switched to VS Code and It's Kinda OK

Turns out switching to VS Code wasn't the big deal I thought it would be. In this video I'll tell you all about the experience and some thoughts on it.

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[guyincognito]

Never unsubscribed this fast in my life.

Then instantly subscribed again, remembering you weren’t using vim in the first place.

[chasescooper]

VS code “just works”, it’s easy to get extensions and customize on multiple computers. I haven’t looked back as I feel it doesn’t get in the way. End of the day just want to write code not mess with the editor constantly.

[jorgen_]

If you want to make a file in the root directory then you kinda need to scroll to the bottom of the file tree and click on the box itself that contains the file first and then click the create new file button.

[RaresCelTare]

4:18 Have you tried helix-editor or lunarvim(neovim) or is that too much of a change from how atom works? The functionality should be around the same, just more keyboard driven than vscode.

[SirThane]

I used to use PyCharm exclusively when Python was all I did. In the job I have now, I use Powershell pretty heavily. For that, we've gotten rid of ISE and started using VSCode.

A lot of the time, I'm doing stuff in the terminal at the bottom, mainly signing files with Set-AuthenticodeSignature. That's certainly an option for creating files and folders.

You can create a file or folder by right clicking in an empty area in the Explorer tab on the left. You can tell by the entire project explorer area becoming bordered by a thin blue outline when you right click. Otherwise, right clicking on a folder in the project creates a file or folder in that folder.

[owentheoutlaw_]

Vim is the way to go, Simple, easy, and minimal :)

[ftjemc]

Not sure if I missed it but was wondering if you've done, or plan on doing a video on ChatGPT/Open AI? Seen a lot of programmers discussing this lately and would really like to hear your take on it.

[bertblankenstein]

Yup, you nailed it, I use Vim for the minimal programs I write for microcontrollers. Recently however VS Code got installed on one of my computers unexpectedly, I might try it, but chances are I'll just be lost trying to use it.

[oscarcharliezulu]

I use VSCode a bit - I'm not a dev but I need to use it occasionally. I found it a very complex environment to get my mind around. In the past I've mainly used very simple editors (the usual textedit, notebook, Brackets), then R-Studio and Jupyter Notebooks. VSCode seems to pre-suppose that you understand its structure and way of doing things, weird key commands, and so on. It does seem to be 'the' editor to use, that I should focus on learning but I would seriously love an 'easy' mode for noob users like myself.

[FHollis-gwcc]

It's been years since I've done professional coding. Back then, I used Evolve. Was very happy with it, but then, the world moved on. For the little script stuff on my own machine, I found Kate works quite well. I tried to learn vim, but just can't seem to get my head around the mode thing. Recently, I tried doing some coding for some ESP 32 stuff, and installed VS Code. Had some learning to do, and still do, but it was my first experience with multiple cursors. That feature by itself sold me! So far, I really like it, to the point I don't think I'd consider looking elsewhere.
Which bothers me cause it's a MS product!😡
BTW, that new mic is worth whatever you paid for it. Very, very nice sound.

[ferixftw]

Before migrating to VSCode have you considered using an Atom fork? If yes, what are the cons that prevented you from making the switch to a fork?

[arcaneminded]

I moved back to vim for a bit before switched to helix editor. It's been my daily driver for a couple of months now.

[bartmeeus]

If you take file => new window, you can drag from your current window files to the other window, the tab isn't gone in the original window but they do sync changes upon save, that's the way i use it when i write on multiple screens, so you can actual do it, but it's not that easy then just dragging it out the original window...

[ipelengmolete]

I switched to VSCode from Brackets when I moved from Windows to Linux Mint about 2 or so years back. I was sad, however it must be said, it is a great product. However, now my current weapon of choice for about 6 or so months now is Neovim. I think it's more of a "better fit" for me, as opposed to it being necessarily superior.

[jneal]

About a year ago I switched from VSCode to emacs.

It took about 6 months of configuration hell before it could replace my existing tool stack, but I regret nothing.

[soupertonic]

You should really consider having a go at Pulsar. It's a fork of Atom, it's being actively worked and has a very welcoming community.

[jedcheng]

About the github issues of VSCode. Back in Spring, there was a bug in Electron for Mac and Linux. Nobody could sign in to their plugins' account through the browser. In August, I was given a new Mac by my company but I couldn't sign in to my Azure plugins on my first day of use. Then I went to the github page of the plugin. The entire issue page is full of people complaining about the issue for more than 6 months.

Because my company is an enterprise user of Azure, I managed to submit support ticket to Azure. Then an Azure engineer found an engineer from the VS code team and added him to the Teams chat. The Azure engineer was trying to ask questions to the VS code engineer but he never replied. After a week, the poor Azure engineer said he couldn't find any problems on Windows and suggested me to close the ticket. But 3 months later, the Azure engineer's manager sent me a message on teams saying that they somehow fixed the bug with electron and showed me it is working now.

Even the entire tech stack of our company is based on Microsoft services, it still took 3 months to get this fixed.
(Forunately, I somehow found a workaround after a week. I pressed upload a local file to Azure by mistake and mysteriously I managed to sign in to Azure.)

[kranefivem]

i use it since i started to learn to code, best editor ever

[lunyalina]

You should try the pulsar editor, it is an active fork of atom

[codeman-dev]

You missed a major boon: amazing support for remote editing. That includes WSL, ssh, docker, and devcontainers.

I am currently loving up on devcontainers. Awesome ecosystem.