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0 pointsxienze5d ago0 comments

> I built my own extensions if I needed them. You're a programmer, right? The whole point of extensibility is that you, or your company, can program what you need from your IDE,

Dude, get real. We don't all have the luxury of being able to engage in endless IDE extension programming side quests just to do our day jobs. And even if we did, there's the reality that whatever you produce is probably not nearly as feature complete or bug free as the extension someone spent years writing. Hence why people want to reach for off the shelf solutions.

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applfanboysbgon5d ago

> just to do our day jobs.

Ah, there it is. The root of most problems in the software industry: people who hate programming and avoid doing it as much as possible, because they only got into it for the money.

I have no problem writing extensions in my spare time because programming is fun. Because I know how to program, like, actually program and not just copypaste stuff off StackOverflow, it doesn't take years to write a vscode extension, either.

xienzeOP4d ago

> people who hate programming and avoid doing it as much as possible, because they only got into it for the money.

Yeah, not the case at all. I love programming, I've been doing it since I was a kid, for over 30 years. But I DO have to earn a living, and I'd rather spend free time programming things that interest me. Writing IDE extensions and tooling all the way down to the bare metal because I can't be absolutely sure at all times that node.js code doesn't contain a virus is not one of those things.

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