Comment by postexitus
16 hours ago
If (That's a big if) they can give RStudio experience in VSCode environment, benefiting from the plugin ecosystem etc. why not?
RStudio is great when you are doing your own thing, but when it comes to more generic tools like Git, LLM, Autoformatting etc. it's a hard pass.
The why not is that they'll constantly be wrestling with, and limited by the generalist nature of a tool like VS Code. While generalism has its benefits and its drawbacks, what it most definitely does not give you is a fully bespoke experience, by its very definition, and I'm simply bemoaning that specific loss, because I like to see specialised tools sometimes.