The project home page.

The Github

Looks just like VS Code and I think it’s still built on electron so take that as you will.

2 points

I’ll wait and see if they manage to get embedded system debugging to work properly. What I’ve seen in the past has been a pain in the you-know-what in that regard, showing clearly that their main focus was PCs.

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Eclipse

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Will probably need to check this out.

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VS code is trash so not much of a challenge there

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VSCodium is cool though. All the goodness of VSC,sans the “trash”.

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Why do you think it’s trash?

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Wouldn’t call it trash but personally after trying it a couple times it seemed like it took as long to config as neovim while also not being nearly as hackable (probably is more extensible though being a GUI). For that amount of time I’d rather use something with larger benefits like an IDE

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7 points

“Microsoft bad”

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I’m a die hard Microsoft hater. I haven’t had windows installed on a pc in years. With that being said I use visual studio code because it’s kind of the only text editor that does code completion in the capacity that it does. I can take a class name, type a “.” after it and a scroll view opens up shows every accessible member of that class along with comments and information about all the variables. The amount of time this saves is so huge I don’t even know how you would quantify it. Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.

Do non visual studio code users just have to memorize every single function, parameter and return type in their code base? Yeah you can always read the documentation, sure you can always dig through the source code to figure it out every time you forget what data type a parameter is but that takes valuable time.

If they ever put visual studio code behind a paywall or stop making it for Linux, I’m going to be forced to either switch to windows (which I never will under any circumstances) or make a custom made ripoff clone of that entire intellisense code completion system and hack it into whichever open source text editor I deem is the next best thing.

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Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.

Well, except Visual Studio (for C++), Qt Creator, and every Java IDE in existence.

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Any editor that support LSP has the same (or better) auto complete. All IDEs also have the same (or better) auto complete, don’t even need LSP.

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Well I’m glad I made that comment because now I know there’s ways to do this that aren’t Microsoft related. Looks like I have some text editor experimentation to do.

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I only use windows because I have to open PDFs that only open in Adobe Reader from my government.

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Code completion isn’t that special. Do you have experience with other IDE’s?

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Huh? Every IDE has had this feature for decades. Eclipse, all of JetBrains products, even NetBeans. This is like the most basic feature provided by IDEs.

Also with the development of first party language servers it’s relatively easy for new IDEs to integrate.

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Vim does code completion just fine if you set up your language server correctly.

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3 points

I’ll give it a try

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I wonder where JetBrains Fleet is at, too.

I am happy there is more competition against VS Code. But I already have my forever-editor (Neovim).

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I believe fleet is still in preview. I’m not a power user so I can’t tell you how it compares to VS Code.

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Fleet is pretty good, it’s almost like a combination of the existing jetbrains products (but some features are missing). However, it’s not open source so I probably won’t be using it.

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