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zsmb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Disclaimer: I work for JetBrains.
Genuinely curious, why do you prefer using VS Code over IntelliJ? What do you get there that you don’t get in IntelliJ, or in other words, and what would IntelliJ need to do for you to choose to use it?
Also, have you tried Fleet yet? If you’re a VS Code fan, it might appeal to you.
paperplane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not OP, but a pretty common reason is having a super-modular and hackable IDE. Everything is JSON-configurable, all editors are webviews, so adding stuff like HTML rendering in Jupyter notebooks is almost trivial from a technical perspective. Fleet might be a step in the right direction, but still feels like a layer on top of IntelliJ, which is a beast in of itself, plus it is closed-source.
Also the approach of decoupling editors from the language support via LSP might be one of the biggest innovations in this space in recent years, IMO. Having a widely adopted and open protocol for language support effectively made Neovim, Emacs etc. a viable choice. It has spawned several high-quality LSP implementations, often directly supported by the compiler vendors, e.g. clangd.
Arguably Microsoft has been monetizing a bunch of services on top of VSCode too and they haven’t always stuck to their own principles (see Pylance, a closed-source language server that only runs in official VSC builds), but the LSP itself was still a pretty big net positive.
Traister101@lemmy.today 1 year ago
VS Code isn’t an IDE, it’s a text editor you can cram with extensions to make it behave like an IDE.