I remeber there was a blog post from JetBrains where they complain about VSCode taking over InteliJ market, by indirectly asserting they don't understand why VSCode adoption was rising.
Surprise surprise, a couple of months later Fleet was announced.
There are two reasons:
- People don't know better (yes, they really don't)
- Language server allowed languages with abysmal tools to finally have some semblance of an IDE
None of us know the future, but in my opinion Fleet is a mistake:
- It tries to fight VSCode at VSCode's turf (an editor with primitive IDE functionality)
- while trying to be a testbed for new UI for JetBrains IDEs
- while trying to both serve the Language Server crowd and keep JetBrain's vastly superior language tools
- while diluting JetBrains' offer of development tools
Or maybe VS Code is just really good? I was skeptical for a long time as well. I am a longtime Emacs and JetBrains IDE user (starting with IntelliJ in 2013). A while back I gave VS Code a try again. I primarily used CLion for Rust and PyCharm. And I found that the Rust/Python is at least as good as in CLion/PyCharm (with the exception of Cython). And thanks to VS Code's rich plugin ecosystem, I have a Magit implementation that is almost as good as Emacs Magit, the same with VSpaceCode to get Spacemacs/Doom-like spacebar-driven workflows.
My JetBrains All Products Pack is up for renewal later this month, but I am seriously considering to let it lapse...
I think Rust support is comparable (probably because they both use rust-analyzer). I've found the opposite for Python. PyCharm is WAY smarter than VS Code.
It's okay. And its ecosystem is also anywhere from okay to abysmal.
For languages (like Rust) that never really had any tools to begin with it seems like an amazing IDE/editor. In comparison to what IDEA offers for more established languages (anything from language support to framework support) it's ... just okay :)
Oh yeah, this is absolutely true. If VS Code is the de facto standard for your language, it's probably a decent experience. I use it for 6502 assembly.
But I see people talking up VS Code over Visual Studio for C++ or C#, which I find completely baffling.
This is from my experience: Just listen to most junior developers. They regurgitate and repeat marketing fluff spoken to them by twitter evangelists or twitch developer streams. I just spent the afternoon listening to it and it was sickening. You can't reason or get through to them. Compromise and nuance just feeds their pompous attitude.
/rant
Sounds like a nightmare! What do IT know about development to be picking tools?
Anything beyond the standard development image requires opening a request to IT and procurement, with the respective OK from management.
Every developer has their own way of being productive which involves different tools & software. Forcing everyone to use one standardized environment sounds horrible.
