VS Code is not a substitute for VS. One is a text editor with a ton of add-ons, another is an IDE.
Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Microsoft Terminal vs the default Command Prompt haha. VS Code vs Visual Studio.
In general software is one of the rare thing where ordinary people can “mass produce” things that compete with commercial offerings.
Fenrir@lemmings.world 4 days ago
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Well I’ve always hated Visual Studio. It installs so much bloat, it is more like another operating system installed on top of your existing one. It’s an abomination.
And no matter what they call VSCode, for what most people need to create software it’s a perfectly fine substitute. I guess you should call it a DE, a development environment since compilers are not “integrated”. But that is a good thing, to be able to install compilers separately. On the other hand if you install compilers, the addons to integrate that compiler into VSCode. Maybe it’s an “integrating development environment”? :D
scheep@lemmy.world 4 days ago
FOSS software is great :D
I would also suggest VSCodium as basically VSCode without MS’s telemetry. The only actual downside is that a few proprietary extensions don’t work (most notably the MS ones)
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah, I’m just too lazy to reinstall and copy over my settings to VSCodium.
Supporting open source projects by small teams has been the only good thing MS has ever done. Imagine if MS would even partly open sourced part of windows. Like there are bugs in explorer for 3 decades that just don’t get fixed lol. And then there still would be bloat and shitty things, but it still would be better.
scheep@lemmy.world 4 days ago
VSCodium supports syncing settings the same way VSCode does :D
alternatively, you could probably just copy the settings.json
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Yeah done that now :)