Another diversion. I’ve been using MS VS Code for a while and found it a decent IDE. However after a long break going to try PyCharm again. One thing I didn’t like about it before was I felt it was sluggish, especially on first use. That was back on my older system with 4GB memory. However at the time 4GB wasn’t terrible. It no longer feels sluggish on my Ryzen 16GB system. I was reminded about PyCharm again while listening to the latest Destination Linux podcast.
VS Code Pros:
- Works with many languages.
- Including Julia which I was using at the time, but not currently.
- If I remember there was a Atom enhancement for Julia. If/when I choose to give it another try, and I probably will!
VS Code Cons:
- It’s Microsoft. I don’t like simply saying because It’s Microsoft…that’s too easy. I’ve talked about MS before and I don’t like to jump on the let’s all dislike MS boat. I’ve been using Linux a long time and stated my reasons elsewhere. Today it’s more about not trusting a large company with a past of trying unsuccessfully, to kill Linux. An OS that has helped me to continue to learn about computer technology…free of charge.
- I hate that it wants to be my everything editor. For regular text files I prefer a simple text editor! I’m guessing this is probably a easy fix. I briefly unsuccessfully tried a few things. I hated VS Code opening my text files where a long line would just continue off the screen and I would have to use the scroll bar to see the whole line.