Comment by fastasucan
1 year ago
As opposed to vim it has a gui, as opposed to eclipse and intellij its language agnostic, as opposed to you they obviously dont find it too slow to be a nice editor, having an inferior ui or miss any of the features.
Contrary to that they may find the ability to shape the editor using extension pretty nice, and doesn't care for having an IDE for every language they use. Its nice being in the same environment no matter what. Also the ability to ssh to another machine to edit and run code with the same experience as it was locally (in a gui) is pretty good.
Every shoe is sub par the wellington/rubber boot experience when it is raining, but you will see that most people do not wear rubber boots. People don't generally like to maximize their choices along one axis, so what can be seen as "sub par" is actually the overall best experience.
Probably a mismatch between what I expect from an IDE and what VSCode offers then, I understand that. Every time I fire it I am always deeply disappointed by the lacklustre debugger and the lack of good refactoring tools.
I never really tried the git integration as I use git purely through the CLI and didn’t try to work on a remote code base so I might have missed the killer features.