That’s exactly how it feels: a more modern and more powerful notepad++, with lots of syntax support and easier to add new languages (even better than code in my opinion). Code seems to try and be an ide for everything, but if I’m doing a complex project, I’ll be getting a specific ide, for everything else a good text editor and a Makefil is all I need
That’s exactly how it feels: a more modern and more powerful notepad++, with lots of syntax support and easier to add new languages (even better than code in my opinion). Code seems to try and be an ide for everything, but if I’m doing a complex project, I’ll be getting a specific ide, for everything else a good text editor and a Makefil is all I need
Exactly, and it’s only a few key presses to add whatever packages I need if they don’t exist already.
The multiple cursors, good regex performance, and json formatting utilities make it a great glue tool for me.
Every time I shutdown my computer I’ve got a half dozen or more buffers open from that type of work.
VSCode has never clicked for me, I know it’s similar in a lot of ways, but I find it kind of noisy. It’s just not a tool that I find intuitive.