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When I say VS Code, what is the first word that comes to mind?

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@khalidabuhakmeh Frameworks
@sarajw You’ll need to explain this one to me. 😅

@khalidabuhakmeh I got back into web development in 2021 - I'd only been a hobbyist before - and hadn't really coded a site, even a simple one, for years despite being totally into doing it as a teen.

Notepad++ was my game way back when. I only started using VS Code because it was easier to use what all the people doing tutorials were using. Modern web dev is all npm and frameworks. They're all one thing for me 😅

@sarajw @khalidabuhakmeh Also works for embedded systems with the various frameworks for the various processors. PlatformIO integration.
@khalidabuhakmeh
The colors of the default theme. Dark grey and blue.

@khalidabuhakmeh Legacy

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The only time I installed VS Code, it took over all file and code associations before I'd even opened it, right in-line with the experience of installing Office ages ago and fonts would get installed overriding system fonts on a Mac and effed stuff up. I will have a hard time ever associating MS products with anything but their legacy as a company of buying up much-loved small software, strip-mining it for parts to put into its own bloated software.

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@khalidabuhakmeh it's almost never my first choice, but it's okayish for most of what I do, if my first choice IDE or editor isn't available
@khalidabuhakmeh Customization
@christian_marx This one is always fascinating to me because I see the initial appeal of customization, but it can quickly become a beast of burden. 😅
@khalidabuhakmeh What I really love is that all settings are stored locally in JSON files or other text files and can be put in the Git repo so that the whole team benefits from and is able to use the same settings.
@christian_marx @khalidabuhakmeh because everybody always agrees on their editor settings, right? :-)
@khalidabuhakmeh And given that I am a long-time user of Emacs, that’s saying something.
@khalidabuhakmeh Microsoft (but said with like a frowny face)