flashgnashMost of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
VSCode is an open source IDE. Its biggest rival is the JetBrains suite. When the alternatives are proprietary, VSCode is a win.
Most of Jetbrain’s tools have community editions as well.
The community editions are still proprietary, and they put the most useful tools behind the paywall.
Possibly linuxVScode is proprietary as well.
Such as?
Let me google that for you, Jetbrains provides a convenient list: www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=pycha…
From the link you shared:
jelloeater85PyCharm community is amazing.
VSCode contains features not available in the real opensource version. It’s a bit of a Chrome vs. Chromium situation. There’s VSCodium, but it misses some features.
What features exactly?
Remote SSH is the one that I need.
There are plenty of open source remote SSH extensions in the vscodium extension library including one that will deploy the full Dev environment to the host so you can run your code there.
Python extension
FischAren’t those features just telemtry and the plugin store (for which there is an open source replacement btw)
Live share, remoting (running over ssh or other) and settings sync are both absent from codium, they’re the ones I know of
Lack of SSH would be a deal breaker for me.
You can obviously SSH from the terminal but unless you use some external solution you can’t open folders on remote machines in the ide
Can’t you just install a plugin for ssh?
I don’t think so, it runs a client and a server version of VS code so all extensions, settings, debug config etc work on the target machine as if native.
Seems like a core feature a plugin wouldn’t be able to implement properly
Obviously you can run ssh in the terminal or you could network mount the filesystem somehow but it’ll be way jankier
Someone on Reddit said that this plugin works apparently. Can’t test it myself rn tho.
redcalciumThe moment remote development works with vscodium, I’m going to switch. For now, the OSS alternative is running code-server on the remote machine, then do ssh port forwarding (or access it via tailscale/zerotier) to access it from a remote machine.
There’s also some issue with good VSCode when using C# & .NET
VScode isn’t foss. It just contains some open source code.
It contains mostly open source code. The proprietary binary MS distributes adds very little proprietary stuff to it. You can use the open source version
Code - OSS just fine or use VSCodium which is based on that
If I was going to use it I would use VScodium.
How do you know what’s in VScode? Its still proprietary.
I mean, that’s what I’m doing
PantherinaInteresting, how do you get this Code-OSS?
If you’re on Linux, you can download it as a flatpak or if you’re on arch through the package manager. Maybe it’s also in the repositories of other distros but I can’t check that. I also have no idea how to download it on Windows. I would recommend getting VSCodium anyway though. It’s also available as a flatpak, in the AUR and on their website for Windows.
Have you tried any of the JetBrains products, they are great.
I did for a few years. Eventually I had to switch to VSCode because any given Jetbrains product is only good at a single language, and constantly switching Jetbrains products is a nightmare. Now that I’ve been using VSCode for a while, there are some extension that are so critical to my workflow Jetbrains is virtually useless to me without them.
Yeah, I mean, if it works better for you, then good on you 😎
I mostly just stick to Python and Terraform. I used their GoLand IDE for a while, it was nice.
What extensions are ya using?
I’ve seen a lot of embedded folks really like VSCode.
Most extensions have good equivalents. Other languages like Julia are VSCode only. Fortran was the language that really made me jump ship, PyCharm’s Fortran extension is barely syntax highlighting. Remote - SSH is the killer though, it is a beautifully made and essential tool for working with remote systems.
Yeah, their extensions are okay, but it’s mostly what you get in the box.
The remote SSH is sooo nice, I use it everyday for PowerShell from my Mac to Windows boxes.
Yeah, I definitely get that for something like Fortran. I used to do LUA a ton back in the day, and it was the only good IDE for it.
Have you tried JetBrains Fleet yet?
You’re the second person to say this and it’s just wrong. With the Ultimate Edition, you can install the plugins for whichever languages you want and stick to a single editor without switching.
seitanicI have, and I would’ve preferred using VSCode.
The jetbrains default hotkeys is in direct conflict to the “typical defaults” for hotkeys you see in the world
I know, they have keymaps for everything, including a VIM map and vim mode!
Defaults are very important.