Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source
by gtaylor on Friday November 20, 2015 @07:27PM
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It's all subjective. Objectively, they have a huge following with many enthusiastic users. Clearly it's not the disaster that you are making it out to be.
I love some PyCharm. It's a wonderful piece of software. It is a little slow to start, and it is indeed heavy on memory, but RAM is cheap and I don't reboot hardly ever. It is 100% a first-class citizen on Linux.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source
by azinman2 on Sunday November 22, 2015 @02:57PM
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Having a huge number of users doesn't mean the product is what it could be. Windows 3.1 had a lot of numbers -- does that mean it was "good?"
I don't know why programmers have to deal with such shit tools. Everything is more/less the same since the 80s, with the exception of github, git, and lib centers like maven or pip. Otherwise the fundamental experience of text editors is the same, and even IDEs are more/less the same.
Meanwhile our interfaces have vastly improved otherwise. That's what I'm talking about. The bar should be higher than VS. The bar should be as high or higher than the iPhone itself.
* Jank occurs frequently
* hidpi support until theoretically recently was only on the Mac
* it's too often indexing
* vim support is mediocre
* themes are terrible and require difficult ways of installing instead of centralizing and hosting
* too many tiny icons of poor design with no text unless you hover
* overall UX is terrible (why can't it be like someone Apple would design for consumers -- Xcode isn't their finest work but is better than the low bar of IntelliJ)
* font rendering is shit (blame Java)
* their iOS environment is such a shit show that it's not even funny, and only now they're opening Xcode for IB instead of having a decent replacement that can do story boards (does it even have swift 2.1 support?)
* many more issues but this is enough