5 Reasons Why I don't use VS Code as my primary IDE

VS Code is an amazing product and I use it from time to time, but here are couple of reasons why I don't use it as my primary IDE.

00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Reason 1: Local History
02:51 - Reason 2: Database Tool
05:29 - Reason 3: VCS
06:47 - Reason 4: Scratch Files
08:23 - Reason 5: Multiple Clipboard Values
09:12 - Last Reason: Intelligent

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[Reviews]

If you're on windows, it has clipboard history build in. In stead of ctrl+v, press win+v and you'll get a popup with all your copied items you can choose from.

[CountJamesMcGuigan]

For me the top features of IntelliJ are:
- Ctrl-F - Instant Find/Replace In All Files (Indexed Search)
- Shift-F6 - variable refactoring
- Alt-Shift-7 - Find Code Usages
- Ctrl-Click - Goto variable definition
- Ctrl-Q - Documention Tab
- Code Structure Tab
- Syntax highlighting with static code analysis
- F2 - Goto Next Error
- Alt-Enter - Autofix menu
- Ctrl-D - excellent diffing UI
- Alt-Shift-D - diff against last repository version (custom shortcut)
- Intergrated VCS / Local History / Stash
- Intergrated Unit Tests
- Intergrated Debugging
- Intergrated Linter
- Intergrated Profiler
- Polyglot IDE with support for most modern languages (CLion is required for debugging Rust)
- Must Have Extensions: TabNine + SonarLint

[adimardev]

i've been using vs code for more than 5 years and i know so much about it. and the reason why i watch this video, is because i started to see it's weakness and time to do a little research and hope that there are editors out there that suits my needs.

[sriharsha]

For scratch files. I dont use any extension. But I do it manually. Usually I maintain a folder with scratch files of diff extesnions(. js, .json, .ts). Whenever I need to use any of the scratch file. I simply open the file into editor. And it doesnt corrupt the workspace. It works as a charm. For the first time it feels tedious rest of them u will used to it easily

[sadhakbj]

I tried multiple times to use vscode for PHP development but no it can't even be 1% equivalent to PHPStorm.
Even for nodejs typescript development I use PhpStorm and I love the database option of PS

[rakinar]

Cool. I also use Jetbrains PhpStorm as my primary PHP IDE. It helps me a lot and saves time.

[srankojic]

Really nice video, I learned something new. Thank yo ufor sharing. One thing that I was looking and nobody asked you about it, I really love the way your Webstorm is visually set up, which theme are you using or is it some kind if combination of theme and iconset ?

[weibrot]

For the multiple clipboard thing, i personally prefer to use the built-in windows system which is windows+v when pasting instead of ctrl+v

[peterlabos]

The sixth reason you mentioned
(advanced intellisense = code suggestions, refactoring, method tracing, file/class creation with option to alter templates)
is exactly why PHPStorm is essential for any non-beginner PHP developer

But to be fair to VSCode, we should compare paid extensions. But how many of those you'll need and how much more expensive than PHPStorm it will be to keep IDE functionality almost same?

[jliu]

I use pycharm most of the time. but when connecting to some resource-limited remote hosts, I use vscode, for its remote backend only needs around 600mb of ram while pycharm needs 1.5gb.

[juleslondon]

As a long time Intellij user I tried VS code recently because I keep seeing it in all those youtubers coding videos. Truth is VS code is not even close. Yes you can do all the important DEV tasks with it: code, run, debug, search, commit. But what people don't realise is the IDE is so cluncky to use and unintuitive and is missing a lot of the powerful features that you get out of the box with jetbrain IDEs.. I honestly can't work without those functionalities unless I'd feel like I'm walking on one leg.
Maybe it would have been fairer to compare VScode to Jetbrain community edition IDEs as those are are free. But even then, those IDEs all have the powerful functionalities that you mentioned out of the box too (except the db one perhaps). For me VScode is Okay but the match up vs Jetbrain IDEs is not even close..

[jmvfooc]

Thank you for your work! My English isn't very well, but your telling is very clear, so I was able to understand all important things in your take)))

[KemalAhmedIsAwesome]

I agree with most of the things but personally I find the jetbrains VCS significantly harder than the vscode one since it's one on top of the other as opposed to columns. The column view that jetbrains has is the visual git built into git.

Otherwise, thank you for the video!

[mikahamari]

Yesterday I tried VS Code with R extension. Didn't work, because it claimed that I don't have R debugger even if I had and tried to execute it without debugging. I saw in internet that this has been an issue for a long time. I uninstalled it.

[jenegrege]

It depends also about the job office politic....
In some places (governemental federal jobs etc ...) for some reasons you are not allowed to use PHPStorm, unfortunately.

[maxfrischdev]

Great video in general, thanks for that! 🤘🏻 But when you showed the multi-copy-pasting I almost spit my morning coffee out! ☕
Holy Sh1t, I have never see than before although I .. USE.. intelliJ for java and webstorm.. 😆😅
Thank you, PHP-Jedimaster Zura!

[a.yashwanth]

local history is implemented in vscode.

[jefferson]

I'm struggling to configure Prettier on Webstorm, any good soul knows how to do it?

[soymuymuy]

what theme are you using in this video, also how are your tabs so much beefier than mine? How do you control that?

[shakkirptb]

I just uninstalled or disabled a bunch unused pluggings and features from Intellij and now I don't see any reason to go to any other IDE. Eclipse likeness, git toolbox, supports everything ootb is my fav part