You're talking to a vim user. If you even suggest that a MS product is better I'll go crazy and crush up my own teeth into dust and then put it in my morning breakfast milk to make Teeth Milk (Tilk)

You've been warned.

(It's 6 in the morning and I still haven't slept I'm really sorry about this but this reply seems really funny to me so I'm posting against my better judgement)

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am not going to argue if it is better or worse than vim. I actually use both; they both have strengths and weaknesses imo. I use them for different tasks. I will say though that VSCode is extremely popular for programming and for good reasons. It's a good product, one of the best things Microsoft make.

Out of interest: why vim and not neovim?

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And I can't really argue with you cause, I'll be honest with you, I'm an amateur programmer. I actually do use neovim though, I just said vim because it's just more recognizable. Like, that's just kinda the name of this general category of thing. Don't have enough experience to know the difference between the two though (except that vim doesn't clear itself from my terminal when I exit, that's annoying. Oh and the tutor. And the color. But I haven't experimented with any of those cool plug-ins yet...)

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In neovim you can have a terminal inside a buffer. So you can have a terminal and your code open side by side like you would in a modern IDE, or emacs for that matter.

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?? YOU CAN JUST HAVE A TERMINAL ATTACHED TO IT TO DO WHATEVER???? HOW did I not know about this sooner I spent literal hours researching how to best use neovim

That was literally my only problem with cli-based text editors and its just there????

I'm gonna be so fucking powerful now that i know this , thank you you beautiful lemmy user

Edit: I feel like this guy at about 2:00 in this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sv3ydNBfQA

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah pretty much. Wait until you hear about termux, screen, or byobu.

See you around.

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Looking up that shit IMMEDIATELY