Comment by nunez
2 years ago
So I've been using vim as my IDE for the last ten years. I've really enjoyed using it, but VSCode is super duper popular. Has anyone like me converted? If so, are you still using Code or did you go back to vim? If so, why?
I gave VSC a shot. It's the stupidest thing, but I just can't get over how the side bar (not the file explorer, but the little activity bar that you can open the file explorer/plugin menu/etc from) keeps re-appearing every time I open certain things. I know it's petty, but I can't get over it.
I was able to, mostly, get things to work the way I wanted in it, but that ended up meaning I turned it into basically my vim setup.
I've moved to jetbrains products at work. Same story there, I basically turned it into vim, and hid all the sidebars (but it does let me do this). Mostly I'm using it for the debugger, the jetbrains debugger is legit.
Still use (n)vim at home a lot, especially for anything that doesn't have a dedicated jetbrains ide.
Other than that, the only thing I've really had problems with is that graphical editors all seem to think in terms of files instead of buffers, and there's no equivalent to vinegar. I think that really throws me the most.
Moved to vscode with the neovim extension (vim mode was slow for me over large files). vsc is super customisable, and you can remove all the tab bars, side panels and anything else you don't use fairly easily. It's also far more stable than the neovim ecosystem, i don't have time to mess with neovim plugins breaking bi-weekly anymore
I did. I eventually got tired of fiddling with configs, not so great debug experience, copy paste issues etc.
Now I just use Vim mode in VSCode. Don't get me wrong, you also need to spend time on Configuring VSCode, but it's so much better.