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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by zo1 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:08AM (#32448124)
I regularly open folders as projects and the intellij (pycharm in my case) IDE creates it as a project without hassle. Just add a bit of a script to cleanup any ide project cruft it creates and I'd say you're mostly there. Compared to all I get from a real ide, VSCode is like a stone age dinosaur.
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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by Kiro on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:18AM (#32448170)
Sounds horrible. Just let me open a folder without it being a project or having to use a script to clean up stuff (wtf?).
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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by kalleboo on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:48AM (#32448316)
I use an IntelliJ IDE and open folders all the time and it's never created any cruft to clean up. I think that only shows up if you start making project configurations (like file watchers to run preprocessors for web languages)
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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by evol262 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @07:11AM (#32448736)
It still makes a .idea folder to add to .gitignore or clean up, just as .vscode makes a .vscode folder.

I don't see this as a lot different than MacOS spraying .DS_STORE files everywhere. It's not a big deal to add to .gitignore, but it does leave a fingerprint. It's just that tries to determine reasonable defaults if the path doesn't exist instead of Netbeans/Eclipse/whatever forcing you to pick them with a wizard if you want any of the "real" features to work.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by lostmsu on Saturday August 13, 2022 @10:59AM (#32450520)
VS Code creates a project though: .vscode folder.
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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by nickersonm on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:36AM (#32460111)
Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.
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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by stjohnswarts on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:49PM (#32452114)
or be forced to bend to their idea of what a project is and which build tools I need to be using, I concur 100%.
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