Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by cnasc on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:42PM
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> What’s awful about VSCode? Genuinely curious.
- palpably slow on a recent 16-inch high-specced MBP
- does a lot of extra distracting stuff that can’t be easily turned off (I know I opened a .java file, I don’t need you to open an extra tab that takes focus to tell me I don’t have a Java extension installed. I especially don’t need you to try and launch several Java-related daemons that you know I don’t have and then also put up some notifications about failure to find them)
- palpably slow on a recent 16-inch high-specced MBP
- does a lot of extra distracting stuff that can’t be easily turned off (I know I opened a .java file, I don’t need you to open an extra tab that takes focus to tell me I don’t have a Java extension installed. I especially don’t need you to try and launch several Java-related daemons that you know I don’t have and then also put up some notifications about failure to find them)