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I've tried too many times already to use the Jetbrains IDEs, because I know they're great, specially about the IntelliSense stuff, autocompletion, suggestions, etc.

But I just can't. My fingers are just too used to vscode, and I can do everything I need to. I feel like vscode is better at everything, and faster, except for the IntelliSense stuff. But lately I've tried GitHub Copilot and that just compensates it sooooo much, to the point I think it is even better than IDEA at suggesting stuff.

Also, working mostly with JavaScript and Typescript makes the difference go away (for me at least) as it is damn good at it.

Being free and open source also is a big plus for using it. And I love also how easy it is to configure... just a JSON with autocompletion for any setting you want to tweak. So much easier than having to mess with a ton of tabs and sections and search for settings, etc, etc.

But, if your language is not well supported in vscode, I agree Jetbrain's IDES are great and probably the best option out there. Specially IntelliJ if you're doing Java/Kotlin etc...

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rimunroe3y ago

Does VS Code support more refactoring and code generation now? I last used it heavily over a year ago, and at the time it seemed like anything beyond moving files and renaming things wasn't really doable. Meanwhile, in JetBrains's software I can extract and inline variables and functions, change signatures, split things out into other files, and more. I think I tried a plugin or two which were supposed to handle those things, but they either just didn't work at all or weren't reliable.

aniforprez3y ago

Depends on the language LSP. From my experience, it works VERY well for JS, reasonably well for Go and not that well for python. Python allows you to refactor variables if it knows the scope of it but won't work if you use star imports and moving files doesn't work at all

brundolf3y ago

It all depends on the language plugin. rust-analyzer can do a lot of this stuff, I haven't seen much of it for TypeScript (though you tend not to need it as much in more flexible languages), not sure about other languages

joshstrange3y ago

Muscle memory is a powerful motivator for sure. I was configuring vscode locally on my box so I could then send instructions to this other developer and my hotkeys not working was enraging. I use GitHub Copilot on IDEA and have quite enjoyed it as well.

It's funny how we have such opposite feelings on config (you enjoying the json config and me preferring UI). I have nothing against vscode and I'm glad it exists, likewise I've very glad IDEA/Intellij exists for my own uses. Thanks for the feedback.

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