Re:I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
by saghm on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:12AM
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> I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way.
I'm not sure if you mean this literally, but I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. I mentioned this the other day here [1], but for whatever reason, I've been completely unable to get Intellij to properly allow me to work on a remote codebase for my job. Despite my company giving me access to the Ultimate edition, the 2021 version of Intellij just flat out refused to connect when I tried to use the ssh plugin, and the 2022 edition's beta of a new ssh feature worked for about a week before somehow getting into a state where it would reconnect every 5 seconds or so and scroll me to the top of whatever file I was trying to edit. I'm sure there are ways to get it to work, but given that VS Code just worked the first time I set it up and never really got in my way, I have no motivation to spend more than a few minutes trying to get Intellij working before just giving up and going back to VS Code.
I think if you see behavior that seems so obviously "wrong" to you, it's worth giving people the benefit of the doubt and actually trying to see _why_ people do things that way before just dismissing them as irrational. I wouldn't be surprised if you've actually talked to people who might have experiences like this that could explain the discrepancy, but if you start the conversation so dismissively, most people aren't going to bother trying to share their experiences with you.
I'm not sure if you mean this literally, but I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. I mentioned this the other day here [1], but for whatever reason, I've been completely unable to get Intellij to properly allow me to work on a remote codebase for my job. Despite my company giving me access to the Ultimate edition, the 2021 version of Intellij just flat out refused to connect when I tried to use the ssh plugin, and the 2022 edition's beta of a new ssh feature worked for about a week before somehow getting into a state where it would reconnect every 5 seconds or so and scroll me to the top of whatever file I was trying to edit. I'm sure there are ways to get it to work, but given that VS Code just worked the first time I set it up and never really got in my way, I have no motivation to spend more than a few minutes trying to get Intellij working before just giving up and going back to VS Code.
I think if you see behavior that seems so obviously "wrong" to you, it's worth giving people the benefit of the doubt and actually trying to see _why_ people do things that way before just dismissing them as irrational. I wouldn't be surprised if you've actually talked to people who might have experiences like this that could explain the discrepancy, but if you start the conversation so dismissively, most people aren't going to bother trying to share their experiences with you.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669461