The Era of Visual Studio Code

Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by headcanon on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:21PM (#24561566)

Other replies have expanded on this quite a bit, so I'll just add my 2 cents:

When using a strongly typed, object-oriented language like Java or C#, Jetbrains tooling, namely the intellisense and refactoring is well-worth the cost.

However I'll still spin up VSCode for most all other languages since the tooling advantage diminishes when using a loosely-typed language like JS or Python.

Also consider that VSCode is free compared to Jetbrains, and the tooling is "good enough" for most cases. Even the C# tooling is passable with the right plugins.

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Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by thrashh on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:21PM (#24572200)

I use refactoring and IntelliSense for Python and JS pretty often and while it’s not as good as for Java, I find that it works pretty well.

Granted when we write code, we keep in mind whether an IDE will be able to refactor it later.

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Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code by MiroF on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:20PM (#24562291)

I agree - but I also think that strong typing is the future.

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