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Comment by RonanSoleste | Hacker News Reader

I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.

I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.

Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.

If you're serious - I made the jump to nvim a while ago - I highly recommend using vim keybindings in vscode to get used to them/learn them, without having to worry about setting up a viable vim configuration/learn everything at once.

Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)

I had to traverse two symlinks to find it but the vim binary is 4.4MB in size here. It does link 13 libs including the mighty standard C library at 2.1MB.

I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.

My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)

This feels like the effective death of VSCode.

I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…

I'm not being sarcastic. To me, it's a classic signal for the start of the enshittification. These design decision will come top-down from Microsoft.

I am losing karma because of my opinion, but that doesn't make it any less true. After all, you can just observe how the feedback goes against border radius. Hardly it will change back now to edgy corners like it's supposed to be.

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