Why do people hate VSCode so much? I don't see any problem with it.

Edit: Okay then, what do you think is better than VSCode?

(I don't personally hate it, although I don't think it's suitable for code.)

It's very lightweight and relies nearly entirely on third part plugins to do anything remotely heavy duty. It's useful for opening and modifying JSON files quickly, but I'd never dream of using it for anything more than that: it slows down a lot in large files (at least on Macs. Speed is something most other IDEs simply don't struggle with), file management is painful, it has hyper-modern and overly-sleek look that is detrimental to functionality (really, why can't modern designers recognise the fact that UIs should convey the maximum amount of useful information in the minimum possible space rather than no information in three times the space? I'm looking at you, Intellij redesign), and has some features that are placed front-and-centre that simply shouldn't be (and yes IK they can be turned off with plugins, but if you need plugins for everything you can remove the I and D from IDE - all you have is a hackable environment).

-ExoByte- wrote:

Why do people hate VSCode so much? I don't see any problem with it.

It can be demanding on older computers

ajskateboarder wrote:

-ExoByte- wrote:

Why do people hate VSCode so much? I don't see any problem with it.

It can be demanding on older computers

It's more lightweight than a lot of other IDEs (such as jetbrains stuff).

davidtheplatform wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

-ExoByte- wrote:

Why do people hate VSCode so much? I don't see any problem with it.

It can be demanding on older computers

It's more lightweight than a lot of other IDEs (such as jetbrains stuff).

But not as lightweight as using a command line editor such as nvim

ajskateboarder wrote:

davidtheplatform wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

-ExoByte- wrote:

Why do people hate VSCode so much? I don't see any problem with it.

It can be demanding on older computers

It's more lightweight than a lot of other IDEs (such as jetbrains stuff).

But not as lightweight as using a command line editor such as nvim

Arguably vscode is more powerful than neovim

it doesn't have anything built in and takes like a ton of space by default. it isn't an ide but uses ide-level resources on your pc to run ):

davidtheplatform wrote:

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Arguably vscode is more powerful than neovim

errr, wrong lol!

electron?

i don't hate vscode, i use it all the time!

-gr wrote:

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i don't hate vscode, i use it all the time!

same

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

-gr wrote:

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i don't hate vscode, i use it all the time!

same

I would say same but I haven't coded in any other language other than scratch in a while. But that is what I use.


(Ok technically I just was programming in C (no # or ++ or anything else just C (Its the programming language of Arduino)) but ya get my point plus that was in the Arduino ide)

-cloudcoding- wrote:

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

-gr wrote:

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i don't hate vscode, i use it all the time!

same

(Ok technically I just was programming in C (no # or ++ or anything else just C (Its the programming language of Arduino)) but ya get my point plus that was in the Arduino ide)

C, created in 1979 if I remember correctly, is used for a lot more than the Arduino.

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

VSCode is Visual Studio Code

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

Visual Studio Code
V S code

code.visualstudio.com/ wrote:

VS Code

In 3 places on their main page.

ajskateboarder wrote:

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

VSCode is Visual Studio Code

BigNate469 wrote:

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

Visual Studio Code
V S code

code.visualstudio.com/ wrote:

VS Code

In 3 places on their main page.

Visual Studio’s IDE (if you call it an IDE) may have the same acronym as VScode, but it is not the same. You could have realised this 15 seconds or less by searching on google for ‘are VScode and Visual Studio the same’.

Stegie1234 wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

VSCode is Visual Studio Code

BigNate469 wrote:

Stegie1234 wrote:

Do you mean Visual Studio Code? It’s different to VScode (and also much worse). I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people who actually hate VScode.

Visual Studio Code
V S code

code.visualstudio.com/ wrote:

VS Code

In 3 places on their main page.

Visual Studio’s IDE (if you call it an IDE) may have the same acronym as VScode, but it is not the same. You could have realised this 15 seconds or less by searching on google for ‘are VScode and Visual Studio the same’.

They're not talking about Visual Studio IDE though, from a quick look through the posts in this topic, no one seems to have even mentioned Visual Studio IDE. VSCode is the same thing as Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio/VS and Visual Studio Code/VSCode/VSC are not the same thing though.

Mrcomputer1 wrote:

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They're not talking about Visual Studio IDE though, from a quick look through the posts in this topic, no one seems to have even mentioned Visual Studio IDE. VSCode is the same thing as Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio/VS and Visual Studio Code/VSCode/VSC are not the same thing though.

Uhhh… They are both called ‘visual studio code’. I think I can guess which one the OP was talking about now though, so this argument is now irrelevant, if it ever was relevant at all.

Stegie1234 wrote:

Mrcomputer1 wrote:

[…]
They're not talking about Visual Studio IDE though, from a quick look through the posts in this topic, no one seems to have even mentioned Visual Studio IDE. VSCode is the same thing as Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio/VS and Visual Studio Code/VSCode/VSC are not the same thing though.

Uhhh… They are both called ‘visual studio code’. I think I can guess which one the OP was talking about now though, so this argument is now irrelevant, if it ever was relevant at all.

They are not both called “visual studio code” or “vscode”.
Visual Studio: IDE for C/C++/C#/some other things. This one was made first.
Visual Studio Code/VSCode: Text editor with lots of extensions that can make it an IDE. Works for any language that someone has made an extension for.
They are not both called visual studio code.