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Gjolin Jul 22, 2024

Do you use VS Code?

Do you use VS Code? - Lemmy

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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calcopiritus Jul 22, 2024

Depends on the language. C/C++/C# I never manage to make it work. Rust works incredibly well. Python needs some small fixing on the paths but works good too. Java needs a lot of fixing, sometimes I make it work, others not.

C# and java are both much easier to set up in an IDE (VS and eclipse (ew)) respectively. C/C++ are just hard to set up, I don’t think it’s much harder than CLion.

So except java and C#, every language is as easy to set up as any other editor/IDE.

I only use vim to edit config files through ssh, so I don’t know how it works for actual development. However, I doubt it is easier than vs code.

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gears

I use vscode everyday with gdb and gcc (and gdbserver.) it works well, but does require some set up.