Nato Boram

What’s even the point then?

The point is that you can enable each separate extension you want running on your code editor or uninstall them if you’re unsatisfied. This makes it as light as you want it to be - or as heavy as you need it to.

I was doing fine with just vim and tmux

VSCode is like vim without vim controls and in a browser. Seen that way, it makes more sense. With Vim, you have to hunt for obscure Github repositories and follow arcane installation instructions for hidden extensions that you may or may not need and you have to learn a whole-ass keyboard-shortcut-based programming language just to use any of it.

With VSCode, you click on Extensions, search what you want and it’ll probably be there unless it’s a toxic ecosystem like PHP/C# or some niche ecosystem that no one heard about.

Everyone should be able to do a hello world without IDE

No rationale provided.

The issue list where your Git repos are hosted. For example, GitHub is pretty amazing. GitLab is nice too. There’s also Gitea, which looks like GitHub, which is pretty amazing.

“Other people” are what’s wrong with me. People don’t use linters/formatters/type annotations when it’s optional and produce dogshite code as a result. Having the compiler itself enforce some level of human decency is a godsend.

Should’ve written the malware in Go, smh

And I fucking love it. Thank you Go!

It did, but the interface is still dogshit for new users and it’s impossible to know how to access a project’s page or its download page. When I started using GitHub, I didn’t even realize that SourceForge was a git hub for a fucking while, yet I was still downloading stuff from there.

Psst, that’s web 2.0. Web 3.0 is stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, IPFS, cryptocurrencies (unfortunately), Kbin…