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Do you use VS Code? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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I have not used an IDE since I ditched Turbo Pascal in middle school, but now I am at a place where everyone and their mother uses VS Code and so I'm giving it a shot.

The thing is, I'm finding the "just works" mantra is not true at all. Nothing is working out of the box. And then for each separate extension I have to figure out how to fix it. Or I just give up and circumvent it by using the terminal.

What's even the point then?

IDK maybe its a matter of getting used to something new, but I was doing fine with just vim and tmux.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm currently using VSCodium too, why did you switch? What's the appeal? Would you recommend them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would like to know, too.

[–] starman 3 points 1 month ago

Not the OP, but I switched to helix, because I always wanted to learn something vim-like, and helix is just perfect for that. It’s simple, working great without any configuration, and has nice keybindings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe he's just a hipster

[–] tatterdemalion 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well I guess I can give my opinion as a former VSCode and Vim user that migrated to Helix. @[email protected] was curious too.

Way back when, I used Sublime Text and got proficient with those keyboard shortcuts. Then VSCode eclipsed (pun unintended) Sublime, so I switched and I was thankfully able to keep using Sublime key bindings. I was also productive with VSCode, except it wasn't popular at the company I was working at, where most people used Vim. I ended up learning a bit of Vim for pair programming, but I still clinged to VSCode, even though it lacked proper support for connecting to a VM via SSH (which was a very common workflow).

At some point I realized that it was important to have a totally keyboard-centric workflow to level up my productivity and ergonomics, and being able to use a mouse in VSCode was hindering my progress. So I tried NeoVim, and it was kind of a nightmare. I know many people enjoy tinkering with Lua to get NeoVim working as they want, but I found it more of a barrier to productivity than anything else.

So then I learned about Helix, and it seemed like a love letter to devs that just want a modal in-terminal editor that works out of the box and has modern features like LSP support, DAP, etc. Also it's written in Rust by good maintainers. I haven't looked back, because the Helix + Tmux combo is incredibly versatile.

[–] starman 2 points 1 month ago

Not the OP, but I switched to helix, because I always wanted to learn something vim-like, and helix is just perfect for that. It's simple, working great without any configuration, and has nice keybindings.