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0 pointsoutside123410y ago0 comments

Well, until a real competitor like Visual Studio Code comes along, then they do. :)

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d010010y ago· 7 in thread

VSCode is still a bit far from ST. I still can't use VSCode for Go programming since it will randomly cause BSOD's, as well as several file-size and file-saving issues.

PopsiclePete10y ago

Interesting. My experience is the opposite - VSCode's Go plugin is what me switch to VSCode from Sublime.

jug10y ago

Same here. And BSOD's? What??

bsg7510y ago

Which version of Windows? Surprised BSODs are still a thing, especially from a what should be a purely userspace app.

voltagex_10y ago

Gonna guess they're on Windows 7 and the graphics driver is crashing - VSCode enables hardware acceleration via a Direct3D DLL. I'd still like to get a hold of the memory dump to run `analyze -v`

pkaye10y ago

I pretty much use VSCode for just Go programming and haven't encountered any BSODs or other issues.

marpstar10y ago

Maybe it is for Go, but for TypeScript and F#, it's better than anything else out there.

Keats10y ago

PyCharm is really good for TypeScript as well, but probably not as good as VSCode.

jbob200010y ago· 2 in thread

I've been using Visual Studio Code for a project recently. I told myself I would give it a try as I get pretty annoyed by the Sublime prompts and general wonkiness of the plugins.

It's not a real competitor by any means. I don't need git integration or a debugger in my IDE, these are wasted features for web dev (the best debugger is the browser because that's where the code actually runs...). I dislike how the "search across project" works - sublime presents search results on a huge screen, but Code is confined to the side bar, really difficult to find what you're looking for given ~250px of space. Code's code highlighting is very bare, it doesn't highlight enough for me, I have to read the code too much. And Code wants me to Tweet my feedback? They actually built twitter into an IDE? Wtf

It's just a typical Microsoft product; too little too late, and nothing special.

noir_lord10y ago

> these are wasted features for web dev.

For your use case perhaps, debuggers are invaluable if you are using a backend language that isn't javascript, XDebug with Intellij is outstanding for those rare times you really need a proper debugger.

jbob200010y ago

And I get that, in which case the developer would be better served to use one of those IDEs. Sublime text doesn't have a debugger and it's not really needed because of the type of work you would do in it. I wouldn't write Java or C# in sublime, why would I do that in Code?

To my point, Code is just a weird mish-mash of features. Is it an advanced text editor like sublime or is it an IDE? In either case, it's bad at both.

skrowl10y ago· 2 in thread

Visual Studio Code is pretty amazing. It's always the example I give when people say native-y stuff built on Javascript (Electron) can't be fast.

TickleSteve10y ago

I tried it for a few minutes and the lag and weight far exceeds Sublime... YMMV.

So no, from the available evidence, VSC and Atom, there is no way that an editor written in a heavily abstracted and interpreted language and VM can match the performance of Sublime.

codedokode10y ago

The problem might be not JS but using DOM (every colored word has to be a separate node and every time you add or remove a letter there would be a reflow) instead of custom widget written in compiled language and heavily optimized for displaying colored text in monospace font.

Sublime uses high level language (python) too but not for rendering.

galfarragem10y ago

But "good products become obsolete also."

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