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Do you use VS Code? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have not used an IDE since I ditched Turbo Pascal in middle school, but now I am at a place where everyone and their mother uses VS Code and so I'm giving it a shot.

The thing is, I'm finding the "just works" mantra is not true at all. Nothing is working out of the box. And then for each separate extension I have to figure out how to fix it. Or I just give up and circumvent it by using the terminal.

What's even the point then?

IDK maybe its a matter of getting used to something new, but I was doing fine with just vim and tmux.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Idk where you got the "just works" idea from, but maybe you're looking for something more like the jetbrains IDEs?

I still use the terminal all the time with VSC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

On top of being super bloated, Intellij's Rider is far from "just working" in my experience. Not only is it super slow to boot, but it also changes asmdefs in my Unity project unprompted, in a way that prevents my project from working (creates cyclic dependencies). The debugger also sometimes doesn't trigger breakpoints 😵‍💫

I absolutely despise it, viscerally.

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