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Visual Studio Code March 2021

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I’m always impressed with how much stuff the VS Code team packs into each release. Also, I love their format for release notes; the animated screen caps are particularly great. Kudos.

I must be shallow but these massive feature-rich updates they produce continue to make me want to use VSC less. I just don't want to have all these features I know I'll never use baked into my code editor

>I know I'll never use

Well, let's see.

Improved tree navigation - you'll use that.

Improved shorcut configurartion - you'll use that.

Faster terminal rendering - you'll use that.

Better debugging - you'll use that.

Annotations on tabs (e.g. tab has modified content git-wise) - you'll most likely benefit from that.

Terminal profiles - you might not use that. For many it will make their work several keystrokes lighter.

And so on...

It's not like they add some exotic features. If you don't have a use for any of that, sure use Joe, Vi, whatever...

You can turn a lot of it off, I had to do that for this and MS Edge recently. Or you can just us Vim.

Still no way to show the whole git diff rather than clicking on the single files

Thank god for terminal profiles, very useful for me!

Same boat, Thank youuuuu vscode team and contributors

I'm a longtime Mac user but I recently had get a PC as my main computer, and VS Code has really impressed me. How does it run on macOS compared with Windows?

Never ran on it Windows, only on Mac. Copy and pasting [1] my comment on VSCode from the Sublime thread.

When VSCode launched, people were hyping it like mad ( On HN anyway ). It drives me crazy because they keep claiming it was very fast. Which isn't a fair assessment since most of them were using Atom ( from Github ) or any other editor / apps based on Electrons. Compared to best Editor in the category, Sublime, VIM or BBedit, TextMate, fast should not be a word you used to describe VSCode.

But then over the years Chromium, v8 and VSCode keep making performance improvements VSCode suddenly tick the box of good enough. And after years of CPU performance stagnation, VSCode on M1 is surprisingly fast. Still not Native App speed with many extension, but then I hope CPU performance will continue to improve along with more optimisation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644446

While you're using it on Windows, I recommend giving WSL and Windows Terminal a try. The combination of those with VSCode makes for a nice development environment in my experience.

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