* Lightning fast search across many projects in one window. * The 'find/replace' across files has a result view with live editing. IDEA has tons of features that makes VSCode feels positively stone age: The Go debugger integration is okay, but Jetbrains' is miles better. It also lacks most refactorings (and no refactor preview). The Go support in VSCode relies on Gopls, which is a buggy mess. I recently tried switching to IDEA, and the difference is just stunning. I've used VSCode for Go and TypeScript/JavaScript for years. It might not be as FOSS as other stuff, but it is more comfortable to use, enables me to be productive and it just works. If someday someone can give me a download link for a VSCode release that has all the necessary plugins for a certain language already preinstalled and does not require me to install anymore or care about how/why this stuff works then I will give it a try.īut for now I will switch with my IDE. Or to put it more simply: I don't want a text editor, I want an IDE. I first need to install what feels like thousands of plugins, only for half of those to not work, then install fifty more because I forgot I even needed those until I did. I got a glorified text editor and that's it. If I code C/C++ i install CLion and do the same, with an amazing debugger etc. It has support for all the java frameworks, supports all the build tools, can connect to a database and show me the data inside of it.
