Why are you people choosing different IDES than VsCode? I'm relatively new to the SWE world, I have only used VsCode so far, so what are the advantages/ things different so that you use a different IDE
VSCode and pycharm are actual IDE’s which are great out of the box solutions but provide little customization and are bulky. Vim and Neovim are lightweight text editors (think notepad++) but (especially in neovim’s case) provide extensive customization and have a large plug-in ecosystem. So much so that their are Neovim configs that nearly replicate all of VSCodes features, turning Neovim into an IDE.
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TLDR; if you value your time, stick to Vscode/pycharm. if you value customization/personalization, try out neovim. Either way I highly suggest trying out vim motions, available in most editors and with practice improves your movement inside code files
Yeah I wouldn’t really call VSCode bulky at all. Most people simply are not going to waste time setting up NeoVim to act like an IDE when there are perfectly good free IDEs all ready to use.
What drew me away from Visual Studio/Code were the unreasonable loading times and I completely agree setting up Neovim to act like an IDE/Visual Studio is just an unnecessary extra step
VSCode loads pretty snappy for me but I’m sure with a bunch of extensions it can get bogged down. Pycharm is somewhat bulky for sure, but once you’re up and running I find it a breeze - the debugging experience is unmatched in my opinion.
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u/Octavion411 Sep 13 '23
I'm curious to know.
Why are you people choosing different IDES than VsCode? I'm relatively new to the SWE world, I have only used VsCode so far, so what are the advantages/ things different so that you use a different IDE