Agree aside from my experience trying to use it with Java. I could not get Gradle to play nice with VScode for the life of me (I know others have, guess I wasn't so lucky), but for every other language I've used it works great!

If you have one project opened in VS Code you can press the Esc key in file explorer and then create a new file it would create a file in the root

I have, and I'm already a vimmer. But I really miss the command palette and the project find and replace. I know there are analogues, but they're harder for me to find.

I get it I use vim a lot as well. The problem is most people do not want to invest the time learning. They don't see writing code as the dev bottleneck.

easy??

@Paul Trashtalker ofc it is, there is obv a learning curve but after that its easy to navigate it can help you improve your productivity.

I agree. My mans is finally a youtuber lol.

Still on Emacs? With evil or original keybindings?

@@exnihilonihilfit6316 Original. I never was a fan of vim bindings and it was easier than trying to rebind packages that don't use them.

the remote editing support really is great

”Lightweight” cmon it uses electron

Brackets had some interesting features. I ended up using Sublime Text for years, but I don't even remember how I found it in the first place. I remember I tried Atom when it came out, but it was just too slow. I tried Brackets. It was okay, but only supported web stuff and I did a lot of C++ at time time. I tried VS Code too, and again, it was too slow. I've recently been trying out Zed. It's by the same developers that made Atom, but it's really fast. It's still quite early in development so it has some bugs. Plus, it only works on Mac at the moment, but they're working on bringing it to other platforms. When I'm on Linux, or using languages Zed doesn't support, I'm still using Sublime.

Serious question: why? If the original copy is still open in the old tab, what's the benefit over, say, opening a new window, opening that file in the new window, and only having one version on my screen? If I'm missing something I'd like to know.

@@joeldcanfield_spinhead When you drag the tab of the file you are working on to the new window it wil be there as a copy until you save it and then it will update in both windows, you can also just close the other tab in the original window... Mostly you open a folder in VSC and you can't open 2 folders at the same time with VSC as far i know, that's the reason i work like that.

@@bartmeeus9033 Got it. Thanks.

I fought lighting for a while but consulted a friend who helped me with the specifics. Now I have a consistent way to record well lit videos, finally.

Yeah, that’s why even in the hard-core OSS mean you’ll still have corporate style structures like KDE, linux foundation, red hat, canonical, etc.

it is actually the price

VScode does not look clean tho 😔

Sublime was the only editor I could use. It's the only one that was fast enough to be usable. I'm now using Zed. It's by the same people that made Atom.

You do know that abstraction is a ubiquitous concept in computer science, right? Programmers build tools for other programmers all the time. What's wrong with having a preferred tool? Or using one already set up by another developer? Or building new tools using other tools? Who says you have to construct your own tools, anyways? Does a chef need to make their own pots and knives, too? Your normative hostility isn't antagonizing or hurtful for anyone else so much as it is embarrassing for you. Your inadequate insult lacks a barb because you've attempted to attack something that isn't a point of weakness or embarrassment for anyone. Ignorance is a bad look on you, however.

You can open new windows. What you can't do, elegantly, is move an open file/tab to another window. I just need a right-click option to open a file in a new window instead of a new tab.

I think for a lot of people (myself included), utilizing and supporting FOSS is more important than brand (dis)loyalty. Sure if you program for a living then it's easy to just throw some money at your tools and forget about it, but what about all the new or even just hobbyist coders out there? I think that supporting and utilizing FOSS projects like VScode is important, because we can't all justify something like a Jetbrains price-tag, but having access to a good quality editor from the start can literally make-or-break someone's entire experience with programming, full stop. So the way I see it, the more people that use FOSS editors like VScode the better, because it keeps high-quality tooling available to everyone. And if you don't trust Microsoft, there are plenty of community-maintained forks like VScodium that afaik don't collect telemetry data or anything questionable like that. Also I agree that your new mic sounds great, EM!

@@0xTas -- I used NetBeans for years and while I did I made a donation yearly (though not nearly as much as I pay for my jetbrains license). The truth is that most people who so strongly believe in FOSS aren't contributing, they just think it's free. And I didn't say EM made a bad decision nor am I saying he just went that direction because "free", just curious why he didn't seem to consider going back jetbrains. I take it you use VScodium, do you donate to the cause or is it a "free" package to you? Frankly a lot of nix users avoid commercial stuff just because it's commercial stuff and think everything should be "free". As a capitalist who charges for my labor I realize that if everything were actually free there would be very little of it.

@@HadToChangeMyName_KZfaqSucks I agree with you that most users aren't literally contributing to the project, whether financially or otherwise, but I think that the large number of "no-strings-attached" users are still a good thing for the health and community of open projects like this overall. If the editor only had niche adoption from the minority of users who are able or willing to give back in some "meaningful" way then I doubt it ever would have garnered the reputation or popularity that it has now, and those are probably the biggest metrics for the success of a project like this as long as "profitability" isn't on the benchmark. I don't see VScode as something I get to just leech off of indefinitely, but I'm also just a hobbyist coder who has never earned a single cent from writing code, so I don't feel necessarily obliged to donate, either. If I ever do earn money through coding in the future then I would have no issues giving back to a project that made it possible. In fact I wouldn't even mind donating if my financial situation was just more stable in general, but unfortunately that's not my reality at present. Also I wasn't trying to insinuate anything negative about what you said previously so I'm sorry if it seemed that way. I'm just trying to offer my own perspective on the matter, and iirc EM did say something vaguely similar about why he didn't want to go back to Jetbrains. I don't remember exactly what he said or which video, I think it may have been the one where he originally talked about Atom being sunsetted, but I remember him making a comment about generally preferring to support a FOSS project over a closed-source license (feel free to correct me if I'm remembering that wrong). Also, I use just plain old VScode lol. I'm not particularly thrilled about MS collecting telemetry etc. But I also run Windows and that's basically the same meme so I would be kind of hypocritical if I avoided one for that reason and not the other lol.

@@0xTas -- Well don't get me wrong, FOSS is a good thing and people having access to "free" stuff is a good thing too, not saying there is anything wrong with that, I certainly can't support everything I use under linux so I use lots of stuff for "free", though I do contribute to most. But on the other hand I don't actually have any problem paying for the things I use for my livelihood or even in general as long as it has value to me. For many in the nix world that seems to be a sin.

@@HadToChangeMyName_KZfaqSucks Yeah, I get what you mean. I do like to contribute to open source projects that I benefit from as well, I just don't have much money to throw at things currently, so it's usually opportunistic like when I find a bug in a software library I'm using, I'll see if I can't figure out a fix and open a pull request or at least an issue for discussion. Stuff like that.

Embrace extend extinguish. Always Microsoft.