![]() I wonder if the same rules apply to Microsoft, Apple and especially Google.Ĭurious to know why people are still using this? Apparently due to the Holland or EU law, companies are not allowed to run businesses outside their main industry at a net loss giving other companies unfair competition. There was a case in the Netherlands I think, where IKEA got a big fine for breaking competition laws because they were selling cheap hot dogs at a net loss to lure in customers to their warehouses. They can then use all that profit on anything, really, without risk, in hope that it will one day generate more profit. The thing is, they manage to have an extremely high profit margin on their cash cows (Windows, Office, Outlook, Exchange) because their customers are locked in. Is it to get people to use GitHub that they now own? Dunno, maybe? Is it to later introduce some paid features? Who knows? Like what is the business case on VS Code? Is it to get more people to develop for Windows, and thereby sell more Windows licenses? Likely not. It has become extremely hard and opaque to figure out just how exactly these big corporations make money. As far as native apps go, for mac, Nova by Panic (creators of Coda) is showing promise though it's not quite there yet I cannot depend on it as a daily development driver and it's not worth it to even try. Unfortunately Sublime is now relegated to an occasional text file editor. You can also feel the few extra milliseconds VSCode takes in every interaction including moving the cursor around compared to how stupid smooth it is in Sublime which is why I wanted to move back to Sublime after switching years ago. VSCode takes a few seconds more to startup though it's not painfully slow yet. The biggest edge Sublime has is just how blazing fast it is during startup and usage. If I buy with the reduced $80 price right now maybe I'll get a Sublime 5 in 2024 It's also nagware that nags you to buy the license every 10 times you save and I know they have to eat but $99 for 3 years of updates that have been very slow so far (releases almost once a year so basically around 3 major updates and bugfixes every couple of months and major versions maybe once in 3 years) is just not worth it. Also factoring in how a lot of my favorite plugins were abandoned years ago as the devs switched to VSCode themselves made sticking with Sublime very difficult. ![]() Git integration was half baked as of ST3 and I don't know if they improved it at all. Adding any of these features is not possible at all. The plugins API is severely gimped at a fundamental level. Literally none of what I described is possible with Sublime. Installing these extensions barely affects VSCode's startup too so I don't feel particularly guilty of "bloating" my editor There's also a Snyk extension that runs dependency security checks in my projects, a docker extension to manage my containers, images, volumes etc at a glance, a git graph extension, direct integrations to GitHub, JIRA etc etc. RainbowCSV allows me to run simple SQL-type queries on the data so I can filter out the columns and rows that are unnecessary. ![]() Where I work, sometimes we get CSV files to load into the DB but the CSV files we get from the client are absolutely bloated with tons of data that I really don't need. There's one I really love called RainbowCSV. VSCode is an absolute beast in terms of the massive ecosystem of extensions. ![]() Are you interested in promoting your own content? STOP! Read this first.For posting job listings, please visit /r/forhire or /r/jobbit.Do you have something funny to share with fellow programmers? Please take it to /r/ProgrammerHumor/.Do you have a question? Check out /r/learnprogramming, /r/cscareerquestions, or Stack Overflow.Direct links to app demos (unrelated to programming) will be removed.If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here. Just because it has a computer in it doesn't make it programming.That means no image posts, no memes, no politics.Please keep submissions on topic and of high quality.r/programming is a reddit for discussion and news about computer programming
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