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Comment by chrisan | Hacker News Reader

Any opinions on Webstorm vs Visual Studio for using TypeScript?

I was a long time Webstorm user until switching to Typescript, and found that its Typescript support is pretty far behind VSCode's. Its been around 6 months since I switched so I can't remember the specifics, except that VSCode generally had better indicators of what was wrong with the type.

Neither is perfect at displaying errors but that might also have something to do with your ts config. I also think that Webstorm is a much better editor than VSCode in every other respect, but for me VSCode is 1% better for my productivity so I am forced to use it.

> found that its Typescript support is pretty far behind VSCode

This isn't (can't be?) true. Both editors use the same language server. I've used both and found their language support to be identical, and WebStorm feels a little more natural to me when using automated refactoring.

I also have both eslint and tslint set up through WebStorm, so I have everything integrated in one place: hinting, linting, compiler warnings, and compiler errors.

VS Code can do the same, as far as I know. I just prefer WebStorm for other reasons.

Wouldn't relying on the language server service yield the same results from checks?

Unless I'm mistaken, one major difference is that Webstorm costs money.

Which isn't "major" if you figure out it's just $5 a month (down to $3 from your 3rd year).

FWIW, It's much more per user for commercial / corporate use. Like, minimum hundreds a year: https://www.jetbrains.com/store/#edition=commercial

Webstorm by itself is $129.00 yr for commercial use. Im replying to myself to make this more specific edit to my above comment in response to dude below that found it worthwhile to find me on twitter to tell me I'm wrong there as well in a Tweet because $129.00 != hundreds, geez! Dang, ban this user again!

https://twitter.com/FraSteiner/status/1085479110774804480?s=...

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