> To get VSCode to a usable state requires 16 third-party plugins
You mean this literally? It took just that one plugin for me, when experimenting with using another machine on my network as the dev environment.
You mean this literally? It took just that one plugin for me, when experimenting with using another machine on my network as the dev environment.
EDIT - child comment is right, the following paragraph is not true! I was writing from my phone and remembered installing this extension [0] but now that I've checked it is for counting offsets from the beginning of the file, not lines and columns. Which I'd concede is not so much of a basic functionality expected in any editor.
[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ramyarao...
And I mean *really* basic stuff... like a status bar label
that shows the line and column numbers where the cursor
is! Yes, you already need an extension just for that.Usually, the only plugins I need to install is the language server plugin for whatever language I'm using. At least, that works for Go and Python while Node and JS/TS work right out of the box.
for me, a TS using node nerd, vs code does these things well:
1. ts language server
2. decent plugins (that i can commit to scm)
3. yarn 2 support
4. nice debugger interaction
Off the top of my head, VSCode lacks a decent code formatter and a "search everywhere"-type command palette. And the Git and database support is not good either, but that's kind of a given.