Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code

Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by brightball on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:06AM (#26367837)

This sums it up for me. For languages with a dedicated Jetbrains IDE (Java, Ruby, Python, etc) Jetbrains will be better experience hands down.

For everything that doesn’t have the premium experience, I find that just using plugins isn’t as effective.

For example, the experience of using IDEA with the Elixir plugin hasn’t been great despite a lot of development. It seems like it constantly loses the proper SDK if I jump between projects.

The VS Code experience has been a lot better for Elixir though. Just works. The moment Jetbrains releases a dedicated Elixir IDE I’d jump for it though.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by cutler on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:13AM (#26367887)

Why the assumption that a separate editor needs to be released? IntelliJ with language plugins is better.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by perrylaj on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:43AM (#26368138)

I agree. Intellij ultimate is the best polyglot work environment I've ever used. The primary project I work on has Java, kotlin, groovy, python, typescript, js, shell scripts, dockerfiles, various configuration files, etc. Intellij Ultimate handles them all equally well as the more specific language flavors in my experience.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by brightball on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:29AM (#26368033)

Hadn’t been my experience thus far.

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