Re:EmacsConf 2024 Notes
by zelphirkalt on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:10PM
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But I am not the Microsoft support guy, or maintainer of VSCode. It happened in the past, that even though I don't use VSCode, I knew how to help someone, but I would never go as far as endorsing it, especially not to a new grad. If anything in the direction, it would be VSCodium, which the no-carers don't even know exists. Other than that, I would tell them they have to make their own choice and if they happen to choose a tool I know, I can help them out, perhaps. If they want to learn Emacs and ask me questions about how I do something, I would be glad to help them learn this freedom respecting tool, over something like VSCode.
Maybe you don't have to use VS Code full-time, but having a knowledge of it is useful.
Personally, I started using VS Code because support for frontend is much better there than in JetBrains IDEs and it has great remote editing capabilities. I would prefer to use JetBrains IDEs (I did for many years, and I still go back for Java), but VS Code is just better. I would never use Vim for editing full-time, though I do use lunarvim when I need to quickly edit a remote file.