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True developers don't leak the keys to their sources just because they need convenience-features from a "free IDE with tons of sexy bells and whistles" ..

Features that would, incidentally, be obviated by making just a bit of a better effort to be better managers of the filesystem and ones' source code - and thus: become more competent developers.

There is a limit to the positive impact of convenience features in any tools, not just IDE's. We are seeing that limit being broached with every exfiltration of repo keys attributed to VSCodes' crap anti-user architecture ...

You'll scream at the universe when it happens to you.

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Your comment implies that you've somehow misunderstood my comments and thus think that I am using Microsoft's hot garbage text editor with a million plugins.

I can assure you I am not.

Your comment came across as sarcasm directed at aa-jv's position that folks are lured into the VSCode abyss and stay there because their comfort level won't let them leave, while VSCode - meanwhile - continues to be a huge security liability for any project where it is used.

... the only sarcasm I posted was about screaming at the universe in response to his suggestion that the only alternative to people loading up a text editor with a million shonky plugins to try and make it an IDE, is to eschew all IDEs.

The sarcasm was because this suggestion is ridiculous IMO. It's like saying "Tesla refuses to use state-of-the-art LIDAR for their attempts at an autonomous vehicle, therefore I shall only travel in vehicles that have both a driver and a conductor, and are propelled by beasts!".

VSCode being a turd isn't a reason not to use an IDE. It's a reason to use an actual IDE, rather than a glorified text editor, with the aforementioned millions of shonky plugins trying to recreate IDE levels of functionality.

Well your point didn't come across at all, just sayin'.

But here's the point: All IDE's eventually become liabilities as they attempt to become an operating system.

Better to just use a text editor, learn to use the build tools, navigate the filesystem with tools that don't have plugins sourced from external sources, etc.

Of course, if your language and execution environment of choice don't allow this, thats another thing entirely. I know you can't do proper javascript development without an IDE - and that's the issue, actually. You shouldn't need a special editor with bells and whistles to do development, and on that point I agree with you entirely.

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