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Really nice idea, but 90% focused on Web (frontend?) development. HTML, JS, and not much else. :(

Still found 2 useful things for me, Parens colorizer and settings sync via Github Gist.

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I use it for most of my C++ projects, and it almost does a better job than Visual Studio itself.

I meant the suggested addons on that page, not VS Code per se.

I'm also using it as my main editor on my Windows box at home where don't do serious development.

My only real annoyance is that I seem to run into multiple addons that can't be properly installed for one reason or another and sometimes "Ignore this" doesn't work and then the popup gets stuck and you can't see the top three lines...

Apart from that it's been really nice for Rust, Go, and Python.

> the popup gets stuck and you can't see the top three lines...

The newest version has smaller popups on the bottom-right of the window, and that was a nice surprise for me.

Yeah I just noticed. Just reinstalled the 64bit version instead of the 32bit one. (Apparently it's one of those applications that act a bit wonky if you're using multiple users on Windows.. it wasn't in the start menu and the Binary was in AppData, so I thought I'd need to reinstall it - but first I had to uninstall the old one.. same with Discord...)

I am interested in the 'almost' part. What are you missing?

I like the idea of using VS Code for my C and C++ work but last time I looked at it I lost interest looking at the length of the setup page for tasks.json and all that to get a C++ build toolchain configured. Is this still the case? Why can it not be more automatic like pretty much every other editor for supporting GCC or cl.exe?

What is your setup? Is it system wide or do you configure it manually for each project/workspace/folder?

They should really add some more non-web stuff to broaden the horizons. It's awesome with Rust, Go, even C++.

How is the support for cmake?

Not sure. When it comes to C++, I haven't used VS Code a ton. I think last I tried, it didn't really have much integration with my build configuration, and mostly I had to hand-configure the flags via VS Code configuration. Jetbrains CLion is probably advisable if you want good Intellisense on a large CMake project.

Or use this VS Code plugin for Intellisense:

https://about.sourcegraph.com/docs/integrations/editor-plugi...

I use it extensively for Elixir development. It's fantastic.

Question, do you use any of the Elixir linter/debugger/highlighter plugins? Have any recommendations?

I'm early on in evaluating ElixirLS and vscode-elixir but have run into some issues with both.

IntelliJ Ultimate is still better even for frontend and node.

At work they pay the license for us if we want it but many of us (including me) still prefer VS Code.

(And FWIW, I have used Jetbrains products before I used VS Code.)

Yeah, I do both Java and JavaScript at work and had centralised on intellij before vs code came along.

If you're like me who prefers having million tabs open you'll find vscode to be much easier on memory usage with multiple project windows open. Also the extensions are nice although i do not know how good they are versus intellij.

Maybe it's a workflow fail on my part when using VSCode but I like IntelliJ's multi-project handling very much (it mainly boils down to: one window per project, and if you relaunch it it will remember your open projects/windows, but also a few other small things.)

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