Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them

Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by kristiandupont on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:43AM (#18389583)

I am curious what you would prefer over this?

"200 extensions with random vote counts" is what you get when there is an engaged community. Would you rather MS told you which extensions they think you should use?

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by Double_a_92 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:05AM (#18390212)

> Would you rather MS told you which extensions they think you should use?

Actually yes. Unopinionated systems leave me too much choice, and lead to a fragmented community.

One practical example are keyboard shortcuts. With VSCode I'm never too sure if I used the right ones, or if some plugin is messing with them... Where as for Jetbrains IDEs I'm certain that code formatting is Ctrl+Alt+L and I could tell other people that ask me.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by crehn on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:17AM (#18390670)

Not sure why you were downvoted, but I mostly agree.

Most people don't want to fiddle with loads of plugins to fit their personal sensitivities.

Most people want simple and robust software that just works.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by bunderbunder on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:46AM (#18390884)

I'm curious what the alternative you'd suggest here is, then. The options I'm aware of mostly clump into a few options that I like even less:

Editors like emacs and vim where getting plugins installed involves just as much of a scattered forest of different options with varying levels of quality and support, only the installation process is more manual. Also Eclipse fits here.

IntelliJ or Visual Studio, which have great support for their primary languages, and plugin ecosystems that taper off very quickly (in terms of both quantity and quality) compared to vscode. Also, all your RAM are belong to us.

Single-language IDEs like PyCharm or Flash Builder.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by chickenfries on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:22AM (#18390705)

There’s a format shortcut in VSCode. I’ve never had an extension mess with the shortcut and I install a bunch.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by s_kilk on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:01AM (#18389672)

I prefer something like the SpaceEmacs layer system, where yes, the modules are written by the community, but then they're curated and tuned to actually work well together.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by frankietwenty9 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:11AM (#18390255)

I thought that's what the official language extensions are.

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