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I'll wait and see if they manage to get embedded system debugging to work properly. What I've seen in the past has been a pain in the you-know-what in that regard, showing clearly that their main focus was PCs.
Eclipse
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Will probably need to check this out.
I'm a die hard Microsoft hater. I haven't had windows installed on a pc in years. With that being said I use visual studio code because it's kind of the only text editor that does code completion in the capacity that it does. I can take a class name, type a "." after it and a scroll view opens up shows every accessible member of that class along with comments and information about all the variables. The amount of time this saves is so huge I don't even know how you would quantify it. Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.
Do non visual studio code users just have to memorize every single function, parameter and return type in their code base? Yeah you can always read the documentation, sure you can always dig through the source code to figure it out every time you forget what data type a parameter is but that takes valuable time.
If they ever put visual studio code behind a paywall or stop making it for Linux, I'm going to be forced to either switch to windows (which I never will under any circumstances) or make a custom made ripoff clone of that entire intellisense code completion system and hack it into whichever open source text editor I deem is the next best thing.
Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.
Well, except Visual Studio (for C++), Qt Creator, and every Java IDE in existence.
Any editor that support LSP has the same (or better) auto complete. All IDEs also have the same (or better) auto complete, don't even need LSP.
Well I'm glad I made that comment because now I know there's ways to do this that aren't Microsoft related. Looks like I have some text editor experimentation to do.
I only use windows because I have to open PDFs that only open in Adobe Reader from my government.
Code completion isn't that special. Do you have experience with other IDE's?
Huh? Every IDE has had this feature for decades. Eclipse, all of JetBrains products, even NetBeans. This is like the most basic feature provided by IDEs.
Also with the development of first party language servers it’s relatively easy for new IDEs to integrate.
Vim does code completion just fine if you set up your language server correctly.
I'll give it a try
I wonder where JetBrains Fleet is at, too.
I am happy there is more competition against VS Code. But I already have my forever-editor (Neovim).
I believe fleet is still in preview. I'm not a power user so I can't tell you how it compares to VS Code.
Fleet is pretty good, it's almost like a combination of the existing jetbrains products (but some features are missing). However, it's not open source so I probably won't be using it.
This could actually be a pretty big deal
As a Codium user trying to choose more open tools, I really appreciate your write up, here.
Thank you.
I'll check it out.
I feel like VS Code is in a very weird place right now.
To just be productive, you need a ton of plugins and often enough these don't really solve all the problems you might have. For example, there's no "java dev" package, instead you have to install a meta-package plus a bunch of other random crap, half of which don't really work out of the box. Or, if you want to use the advanced features, you have to live with weird constraints and bugs. The UI isn't really designed to incorporate more advanced plugins and the plugins themselves often don't work as expected. For example, for some reason, if you connect to a remote host, the java LSP needs the java home dir to be in the same path on both machines, which is just weird.
For a text editor it's way too bloated, but for an IDE it's way to barebones. The days of the nimble and fast advanced editor are gone,
I use lazyvim and this is my experience in neovim as well. I don't think it's a weird place, it just puts the onus on the end-user to tailor their experience.
There's a black python extension (only downloaded it following a django tutorial) and it did nothing it was supposed to. So I'm not sure what it's intentions were.
Tried the ruff extension?
Great sum up, yes, the major issue with VS Code is the licensing issues that Microsoft caused there.
Coming soon, everything is corrupt, I have to delete the .metadata dir regularly, but it's faster.
