Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by thu2111 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:07AM (#21582536)

Obvious answer: it's the only IDE-like thing that's both well supported and caters to the huge population of JavaScript-only developers, who generally don't want to use IntelliJ or similar products because they can't customise it using only web-stack skills.

That is, if JetBrains had made JS plugins first class citizens of their products, possibly VS Code wouldn't be as popular as it is.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by jdnenej on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:13AM (#21582837)

I use vscode even though I don't particularly like it. Imo rubymine is a better editor but vscode does 90% of the job while not costing $300/year.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by thu2111 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:42AM (#21592911)

I'm curious where you live. Is $300/year a big expense for you? Computers and developer salaries are usually much higher.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by s_y_n_t_a_x on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:00AM (#21584441)

Sublime was the leader before VSCode and it had python plugins. VSCode is popular because it works so well with TypeScript

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