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Me too. I was a bit skeptic at first. Been a long time vim user but wanted to try something new. I now use it to code Python (I write a lot of it). It works very nicely. So much that I'm in the process of making it the official company -wide text editor for python at work.

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I'm curious, what's the thought behind having an official company-wide text editor? The companies I've worked for usually take the route of "leave their choice in tools up to them", which I appreciate.

As long as it is implemented as a reference standard and not enforced, I think it is a good idea. The official tools are built into the standard PC build that new starters get, and inexperienced new starts would be expected to use it as company documentation will be optimised for the "company standard" tools. Experienced workers should be free to use what-ever they like as long as their output is 100% compatible with the company standard (so doesn't pose any collaboration difficulties).

We needed a good standard setup that fit our needs. People can opt to use something else as long as their code meets the style guidelines. But its easier to use the same tool. We share tips and tricks a lot. That way we improve our workflow as a whole.

Why not vim itself? We tried it. They are more used to GUI centric editors. (shrugs)

While I agree with what you are saying, editor config is a good tool to enforce coding standards across multiple editors (as a bonus it already supports VS Code)

http://editorconfig.org/

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

I never got this either especially when editorconfig exists.

I can understand it, if it's not too draconian. It's nice for some central power to have coherent walktnroughs on how to set up an editor to lint, etc. If another dev wants to use a different editor and can make it work, it's fine by me, but I can't see anyone "supporting" every editor out there.

Out of curiosity, how did you get it working for Python?

Last time I checked, there's no official Python support. There are some unofficial plugins, but none of them have true Intellisense support for Python. (e.g. a la Pycharm, or even Visual Studio Tools for Python).

I know they mentioned they were working in it a few months ago on a HN thread, but I haven't heard anything about it since.

There is a doc page describing the features supported by popular extensions. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python

Lots of usage out of the top extension. Not quite to PyCharm level, but getting there.

As part of the Visual Studio Code effort, the .net intellisense was split into a stand lone server to be used from any editor. So I'm going the opposite way, hoping to do more and more in vim and less in VS.

Do you have more details on this? I'd love to be able to use the .NET intellisense in something other than Visual Studio. Thanks!

http://www.omnisharp.net

Omnisharp existed as a community project well before VS Code. It's great to see MS adopt and build on it.

What's the rationale behind forcing people to use an editor (especially a specific editor for a single language)?

To get stubborn people to try new tools for a change.

Of course their goal is conformity, easier management (e.g. everybody gets the same linters, code formatters, etc), but the above is a nice side benefit too.

There are tons of people using some antiquated editor and swearing by it, that get amazed when they are forced (by a job) to use a modern IDE and see what it can do for them.

And I'm not talking about Emacs etc -- which can do a lot if you set it up right, I talk about people coding e.g. Java with Slickedit or whatever. Heck even Vim users are sometimes surprised of the convenience (and turn-key use) of embedded debugger, build system, actual AST-based auto-completion, refactoring tools, etc.

Because when we code, actually editing text is the least of our worries, and yet this is what most simple "programming editors" focus on -- it's not like we're building huge ASCII art paintings...

They can use anything as Long as the code meets the requirements. But having one official tool makes it easy to work together (in our case).

I tried it for python but the pip panel almost immediately soured me on it. Whenever I tried typing something in it, it would lock up the whole program for minutes at a time - absolutely atrocious.

I use the regular command line. The VSC terminal is currently not that good.

How did you manage to leave vim keys so easily?

There's a vim key extension that's pretty good too.

I still usa vim a lot, too.

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