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> VS Code is unbeatable for the overall experience.

What is this shilling for VSCode? It's awful. But, somehow everyone who says positive things about it either turns out to not know how those things work, or just saying something vague, never pointing at any concrete feature that makes it better than something else...

But, the reality of it is that all there is to it is a crappy CUA text editor with nothing special going on for it. There were dozens like it before.

So far, over the years of working with other people using this average-at-best editor the only remarkable thing I found about it is that it has a plugin that allows some Jenkins integration, which may be useful if you are in DevOps, but... I can live without it, not a deal-breaker, not by a long shot. The awfully lacking text editing abilities of this editor completely erase any benefit I could get from that plugin. Stuff like modal windows, mouse-only navigation, missing most useful commands of structured text navigation and proprietary nature make this tool a complete non-starter for me.




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