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.

  • Asudox@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I switched to Zed recently. Very basic and definitely is not as feature rich as VSCodium but I’m sure it’ll get better.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Zed looks very promising. There are only 2 things that prevent me from using it.

      • The git lens vs code extension
      • Rust-analyzer configuration

      I’ll keep an eye on zed, but I think most people will stay on VSCode until zed gets feature-rich enough that they won’t miss VSCode.

      • Asudox@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I understand you. Zed does give me some headaches sometimes but I mean it’s still pretty alpha. Maybe I’ll switch back to vscodium until zed becomes more mature after all. Though they never said it was an IDE so I don’t expect for it to be ever feature rich as vscodium.