• @Kojichan@lemmy.world
    0•15 hours ago

    I just code in Notepad++. I make an error, I fix it. It doesn’t work, I just dump variables to see what I did wrong and where.

  • @bier@feddit.nl
    0•2 days ago

    Too many features but also autocomplete isn’t working? So I guess you do want many features?

  • @gamer@lemm.ee
    0•3 days ago

    Sublime Text + sometimes LSP is all you need. It might be difficult for people who don’t know how to use a build system directly, but those people are underachievers anyways.

    • @Charmander8649@programming.dev
      0•2 days ago

      Kate is great for being a compiled C++ program, making it nice and lightweight. Plus lots of syntax highlighting. Not quite the same as IDEs with auto completion, but pretty good for plain text editing.

  • Caveman
    0•3 days ago

    I use Jetbrains IDEs now for 5 years, I’ve used VSCode, Sublime, Atom, Vim, Neovim but I feel like Jetbrains IDEs are just better if you have the RAM to run it.

    1. It’s a setting.
    2. Doesn’t happen
    3. Doesn’t happen
    4. Searchable actions, just search for “encoding” in this case.
    5. That’s an LSP/project mismatch usually just a setting. Most things are supported but worst case you can remove the error.
    6. Happens if you run out of RAM or open a very large file.

    So it’s not all bad, but comes with a lot of good such as “invert if statement”, “use template strings” and “extract method” thingies along with a load of plugins.

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0•3 days ago

      Agree. I used a ton of different IDEs too and I can say Rider was the least terrible one I’ve used professionally (mostly on Unreal Engine projects, so having the thing not kill itself when trying to compute large, complex codebases for syntax highlighting/autocomplete was a requirement).

    • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      0•3 days ago

      I’m so spoiled by searchable settings that it feels like I’m back in the 50s if I actually have to manually click around menus looking for a setting.

    • @squaresinger@lemmy.world
      0•3 days ago

      Number 3 happens all the time to me when using VSCode with Copilot as autocomplete. Copilot sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Also happens a lot when using Pycharm with Python. Sometimes it’s great at autocompleting, sometimes it completely gets lost and has no idea what my Python script is doing.

      Number 5 also happens a lot on VSCode + Platformio. It also frequently happens on Intellij IDEA for me, but mostly when I am concurrently running build or test while writing. My crappy work laptop suffers from Windows 11 related performance issues, and when there’s not enough performance available, underlines do get wonky quite frequently.

      • Caveman
        0•2 days ago

        I also had issue when I was working on a pycharm project back when I was on windows. During setup it asked me “What’s your name?” and my name has a cheeky accent which Windows was decided should be the name of my Home folder. Home folder also has appdata and whatnon so which the build system didn’t expect to have a an accent in the folder path.

        I ended up having to create a different folder and link to it then move all the path configurations to that folder link just so I could get imports working.

    • @Venator@lemmy.nz
      0•3 days ago
      1. can also sometimes happen when your workplaces corporate antivirus you can’t uninstall, pause, or change any settings on decides to scan your project files while a build is in progress 🤦🤦🤦
      • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
        0•2 days ago

        Oh, you get the benefit of explicit scanning?

        We get the beauty of every file that’s modified being scanned before the write “completes”. It’s an absolute joy starting a build and watching ~80% of the available compute be consumed by antivirus software.

        Or, you know, normal filesystem caching as part of your tool’s workflow.

        Or dependency installing and unpacking…

        Or anything actually that touches a lot of files.

        • @Venator@lemmy.nz
          0•2 days ago

          Yeah was experiencing that for awhile, a couple of workarounds:

          • run the IDE inside a VM
          • Use windows “dev drive” and got the admins to exclude it from active scanning, but it seems like that setting has been lost recently 😕
  • @BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
    0•3 days ago

    None of those issues for my main IDE, though Rider on some occasions do get stuck marking some spelling errors after they are fixed.

    It has stuttered a few times, but pretty rare. But it does have a bug where it think it is building a project, but isn’t. And requires a restart to fix… Easy to trigger if you try building a project while it’s loading the project…

    Visual Stuido with Resharper is the one where things would randomly stop working though. Especially hotkeys would sometimes stop working until I restarted it. Slow and stutter too.

  • OwlEnglish
    0•4 days ago

    I’d argue the benefits outweigh the downsides

    • qazEnglish
      0•3 days ago

      Yes, and the worst part is that XCode is only available on OSX.

      I once had to make an iOS app once and didn’t have a Mac so I developed the entire thing in a VM. There was no video encoding, the FPS was in the low single digits, which made it very difficult to even type. So I ended up writing the code using VSCode through SSH through Wireguard connected to the VM on the host machine, which actually worked surprisingly well. But hey, the app did work in the end.

        • qazEnglish
          0•3 days ago

          I used QEMU but I don’t think it’s possible anymore. I had to use an older version of OSX (I think I tried 3-4) but that version is no longer supported by XCode.

  • EthanEnglish
    0•4 days ago

    VSCode is the first development environment I’ve used that doesn’t make me feel like this. It’s not perfect but the base application is rock solid and the full DE experience is the more reliable than any other DE I’ve used.

    P.S. I specifically said DE for those people who say VSCode isn’t an IDE. Personally I don’t see the point in differentiating.

    P.P.S. Sublime is not a DE in my opinion. It’s an excellent text editor with syntax highlighting. The plugins were an afterthought and it was never intended to provide the full experience. Granted I haven’t used it in years.

    • @tiramichu@lemm.ee
      0•3 days ago

      VSCode is by far and away the best thing Microsoft has ever done. (I’m sure therefore they will ruin it eventually, but that’s a separate issue)

      Its good for two main reasons IMO:

      1. It is plugin-based

      2. It is (therefore) language-agnostic

      Plugins mean the DE starts as a very lightweight thing that is basically nothing more than a text editor. You can then add as much or as little as you want to get the level of features you are comfortable with but without being too bloated.

      And then, because it’s all plugins, you can work with any language and still stay within the same editor. Divine.

      I personally love how lightweight it is compared to a full IDE because I don’t like it when IDEs hide the magic behind UI. Press the button and it compiles huh? But how? What’s going on there? What toolchain and commands are being executed?

      I much prefer a good MAKEFILE where you know what your entry points are and what is going on, because it makes everything so much more portable and also improves your own knowledge and understanding.

      • @mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•3 days ago

        Yeah it’s great because even without a make plugin, you can just add your make command to the vscode actions that’ll run your makefile.

        Or even better, get the plugin which will auto populate targets from the makefile lol