M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box

Re:M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box by j1elo on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:00PM (#26771261)

Believe them, VS Code is a strange beast in that it's really powerful and has a very flexible extension system... but that's a double edged sword because it lets the devs easily ignore features with the excuse that they should be done with a 3rd party extension.

EDIT - child comment is right, the following paragraph is not true! I was writing from my phone and remembered installing this extension [0] but now that I've checked it is for counting offsets from the beginning of the file, not lines and columns. Which I'd concede is not so much of a basic functionality expected in any editor.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ramyarao...

  And I mean *really* basic stuff... like a status bar label 
  that shows the line and column numbers where the cursor
  is! Yes, you already need an extension just for that.

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Re:M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box by jaredmosley on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:10PM (#26771351)

I mean, that's just not true. The basic VS Code install will tell you the line and column numbers in the status bar without any plugins.

Usually, the only plugins I need to install is the language server plugin for whatever language I'm using. At least, that works for Go and Python while Node and JS/TS work right out of the box.

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Re:M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box by j1elo on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:24PM (#26771461)

You're right. I've since arrived home and could check my VSCode, which led me to edit my comment above.

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