Visual Studio Code June 2016 1.3

Tabs, huzzah!

Interesting side note to this: I was alerted to this release when I got an e-mail from the UserVoice site saying my upvote for the Tabs feature was released because the feature was now done. I have to say, the widespread adoption of UserVoice has been one of my favorite things about the so-called "New Microsoft". I've had multiple UserVoice suggestions on different products actually implemented; it seems to be the first bug/feature suggestion box from a megacorp where there's a sense that people are actually paying attention. Please tell any teams at Microsoft not yet using UserVoice to do it!

I'm now using VS: Code as my daily editor, which is kind of surprising to me! To copy a comment I posted the other day:

It's amazing to see how fast VS: Code is picking up extensions with full autocomplete, go-to definition, and other IDE-styled features. Atom's equivalents are rarely as nice, unless you're using Nuclide because they wrote their own damned framework inside the editor to achieve those features! I think it's because VS: Code's APIs are built around exposing those sorts of features nicely and simply.

- OCaml [0]: IntelliSense, go-to-definition, interactive debugging. This plugin is so well done that I feel VS Code is the best editor for my OCaml work now!

- Nim [1]: IntelliSense, go-to-definition, linting, Nimble building integration

- Purescript [2]: IntelliSense, compilation, linting, quick fixes for common errors, and type inspection

Seriously, more and more are added every day, which is just awesome. I'm still annoyed at small UI parts of VS: Code, but honestly the functionality and speed make it second to none in my opinion.

The only thing I'm left wanting is more powerful PHP IntelliSense, as the current implementation (and the Crane extension) are still lacking compared to, say, Komodo Edit (or SublimeCodeIntel which uses Komodo Edit's CodeIntel handling)

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[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hackwaly...

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kosz78.n...

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nwolvers...

If you're an Atom or ST user, give VSCode a shot. It has a few amazing features that I really like. For example JSON Schema based suggestions when editing JSON files or amazingly smart JavaScript engine are the ones I remember.

> Global Search and Replace

Finally! This was the only reason why I had to keep Atom around.

Working Files panel is fine, but Tabs is really natural. One of the features that I'm used to in other text editors /IDEs.

After using vscode without tabs for a month, now, I find it's hard to come back to tabs (and preview mode too).