Still lots of love for sublime here. I actually use both. Anything for web I use sublime and apps are vscode unless im making a quick change.
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Still lots of love for sublime here. I actually use both. Anything for web I use sublime and apps are vscode unless im making a quick change.
I use VS Code all the time on all sorts of platforms. Fast and with plugins and extensions for just about every language,
To confirm, when I 'Restart to Update', it's automatically grabbing the new Apple Silicon build (via Universal) for my M1 MBP?
Never used Rider, but other Jetbrains IDEs ( PyCharm, Goland ) include everything that Webstorm ( + DataGrid ) has, so they are pure full stack - everything is included, including Angular, React etc support. No need to jump between WebStorm and the other IDE. I have no issue with the performance of the Jetbrains IDEs I use, with large projects. Definitely better than Eclipse, which is a mammoth beast.
So definitely, YMMV.
Interesting to hear how others use VSCode in combination with Jetbrains!
It’s still perfectly valid for ST to be your preference. Also, great attitude for trying out new things!
That's something I haven't tested. I knew Rider had some web-tech support but I believed it wasn't to same extent as WebStorm. However, I haven't tested it.
Eclipse is in its own league. I wish it cost something, so 95% of companies would drop it (let's be honest, it is only used because it's free). I meant VS Code starts faster and UI is snappier. That's not to say Rider is slow, but it's not as instantaneous as VS Code.
Glad to see this, I was using the AS that was in beta and it worked well.
Now I just wish they would get Teams to AS as well.
Now I just wish they would get Teams to AS as well.
I have both VSCode and Nova and I really want to like Nova more but the extensions need a lot of work. Unfortunately linting and type checking is really slow in Nova (because it does a full file check using a CLI tool and then parses the results), quite more than VSCode. The editor itself is so super slick and I look forward to the performance of extensions improving.
Agreed. I would pay for it just for the improved elegance if it included all of the extensions I use VSCode.
I used SublimeText for almost 10 years but finally moved to VSCode and didn't look back as well. Its a shame because I really like their editor but it hasn't kept reasonable pace with Microsoft. I certainly don't expect parity, but be at least be in reasonable distance behind...
Great news!
I find that Vs Code is the best at filling the gap between a full blown IDE and a fancy text editor.
For example you can do stuff like git clone a repo somewhere and look through the history, or use its built-in autocomplete and debugger, to quickly whip up a Python script, etc.
Even though it's an Electron app, it starts up really quickly, and the memory usage is not that bad compared to the typical Browser-based stuff - especially compared to the node.js and browser-based full-stack stuff I use it to develop sometimes.
Nova also looks promising, maybe I'll try it out and see if it fills the gap between JetBrains stuff and TextEdit as well as Vs Code does.
I find that Vs Code is the best at filling the gap between a full blown IDE and a fancy text editor.
For example you can do stuff like git clone a repo somewhere and look through the history, or use its built-in autocomplete and debugger, to quickly whip up a Python script, etc.
Even though it's an Electron app, it starts up really quickly, and the memory usage is not that bad compared to the typical Browser-based stuff - especially compared to the node.js and browser-based full-stack stuff I use it to develop sometimes.
Nova also looks promising, maybe I'll try it out and see if it fills the gap between JetBrains stuff and TextEdit as well as Vs Code does.
Did you select the Apple Silicon version from the download page? If not it likely downloads the Intel version by default.Just installed it on my 2020 MBA M1 and it still showing as an Intel architecture in Activity Monitor
Yes, Electron has released something since that blog post, which was back in October: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electron/universal. Also, Microsoft is following the recommendation of providing separate arm64 and x64 builds of the app. They just happen to also offer Universal download. Further, it looks like Electron's warning is based just on resulting app size (the irony...) and not any quality issues (e.g., the "merge" tool still being beta--does not appear to be). So aside from the download being about 50% bigger (not sure about post-extraction size; honestly this is less than I was expecting), nothing too odd here.
Thank you for this. I was looking all over their site for documentation (nothing?). Figured they would have posted something after that blog post. Didn't think to check github/npm.Yes, Electron has released something since that blog post, which was back in October: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electron/universal. Also, Microsoft is following the recommendation of providing separate arm64 and x64 builds of the app. They just happen to also offer Universal download. Further, it looks like Electron's warning is based just on resulting app size (the irony...) and not any quality issues (e.g., the "merge" tool still being beta--does not appear to be). So aside from the download being about 50% bigger (not sure about post-extraction size; honestly this is less than I was expecting), nothing too odd here.
Alright so apparently Nova was so good we had to try it. Here's what we've found:
this is Code:
this is Code (cmd+p piece of cake):
leads to:
Looks promising but not recommended for big projects, even less for Java, a lot of eye-candy but some basic functionality & performance is not there yet.
- Finding stuff is clunky, takes a few seconds to display results, Code's search is much better optimized it seems.
- Filtering anything on the bottom menu sidebar will almost hang the computer entirely, having to force quit the app (so much for "native" lol):
- JSX syntax coloring is not properly displayed on some JS files either.
this is Code:
- If I have a massive project I want to jump quickly to a certain component or config file, the quickly find palette is useless:
this is Code (cmd+p piece of cake):
- This one is great, if you change the project's folder icon color, it will create a confguration.json file inside a .nova/ folder which git will pickup.
leads to:
Looks promising but not recommended for big projects, even less for Java, a lot of eye-candy but some basic functionality & performance is not there yet.
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VSCode kills every other IDE of its kind due to the extentions people build. I use extention to integrate with Jira, Bibucket,, GitHub, Azure services, ... multi language support is formidable, from javascript, go Jupiter Noterbooks, C# .... ..... .... ... , so so so many stuff. Also the pace MS is improving the system is incredible. Every month a new release with plenty of new features ... oh haven’t found a bug on it still.
If all you need is to write a bunch of JavaScripts, CSS/LESS/SCSS and publish, go Nova. It’s a beautiful editor ... but ...
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Bunch of nonsense.
The poster had a valid point. Electron Apps are resource HOGS. To me this is a disrespect and a travesty of IT.