[berkut]

Yeah, as someone who's been attempting to use VSCode to do Python and Rust dev over the past three years, I'm continually surprised by people who say VSCode and the Rust analyzer plugin is a Good/Great IDE env.

It so often seems non-functional to me: auto-completion just doesn't work consistently, even on really simple things - you firstly normally have to save your file first, and even then often if I restart VSCode it will then work again on something it didn't a minute ago, and other times I can never get it to complete things. And this is happening on two different Linux machines and a MBPro M2 in multiple projects, so I don't think it's just a one-off bad configuration I've somehow got.

Its auto-indenting when writing code is insane as well, it seems everyone must be running rustfmt all the time, even on code as they're writing it? It never seems to get the indents right on new lines for me, I'm either having to add them or remove them.

At the end of the day it's what you get used to I think, but Visual Studio 15-20 years ago was pretty good (other than the bloody pause for "Updating intellisense"), I've yet to find anything as good for Python as PyCharm, and QtCreator (CLion was pretty good as well) is still the best Linux/MacOS-based C/C++ dev env I've found (but recent versions of it are getting worse IMO what with all the complicated "Kit" build config stuff).

[skydhash]

My first code editor was Notepad++ and my first IDE was Code::Blocks. These two worked really fast on my Pentium 4 computer with Windows XP. All the while providing much better experience than VSCode.