I'm curious. I know it's great for one-offs, but is anyone actually using VSCode as their main tool when so many native IDEs and text editors are available?
I would love to know what's your use case. Maybe I'm missing something big.
I would love to know what's your use case. Maybe I'm missing something big.
Speed has never been an issue for me; VSCode boots up in under a second and easily chews through thousands of lines of code (albeit without tokenization).
The new SSH connection mode has been a lifesaver for me - you can now sync VSCode with a server you have SSH access to, meaning you can browse/open/save files remotely, and open as many terminals as you want on the target server. This makes it super easy to e.g. test code on different hardware or view logs or edit config files and such.
Support for other languages like go, rust, C# (.Net Core) are pretty decent. The extensions/marketplace is incredible in terms of the breadth and depth of support for almost anything you can think of. I even have an enviornment setup with a settings file defaulting to CP437, where I use SSH remote extension in code to configure a remote telnet BBS.
Beyond all of this, it's relatively quick to load and run, though there are faster editors, I haven't seen a (much) faster IDE really.
The remote ssh extension is probably the third killer feature for me. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of those three things alone. I don't use some of the other features nearly as much as I rely on the console a lot, and the integrated terminal just makes it in the box as an experience.