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Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust by onion2k on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:26AM (#26618581)
For example I'm writing a Flutter/Dart project ATM - the VS code plugin becomes unusable after a while of working on the project even on a relatively small ~30kloc project.

I use VSCode on a project that's about 3* that right now (not including things like node modules or config) and it's never failed.

Are you sure the problem lies with VSCode rather than the Flutter/Dart plugin?

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Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust by reader_mode on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:32AM (#26618887)
Oh it's absolutely the dart/flutter plugin. Just as it was the C# plugin when I attempted to use it as a VS replacement, and it was down to Rust plugin when I tried that.

So in the end the only decent experience I had with it was Typescript and JS.

Compare that to IntelliJ or Visual Studio. If I was mostly doing Web frontend or node I would 100% use vscode. Otherwise I just find it's too unreliable and I don't want to waste productivity energy on it. (I wish it was on IntelliJ level, I would pay for that with vscode remoting possibilities, more than I pay IntelliJ even)

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