Hey everyone!

I was just wondering why one would use any of the programs I mentioned above instead of VS Code to write Code.

Can someone give me a brief overview of the advantages?

Thanks in advance!

  • lemmyng@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    If you frequently work on remote systems you frequently only get command line access, where you can still use vim/nano/emacs but not a full IDE like VS Code. In that case you might find it more convenient to learn one text editor well and forgo the IDE.

      • lemmyng@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s a long list of caveats when running VS Code over SSH. By comparison, text editors:

        • Work on Alpine remotes
        • Work on older distributions, and other *NIX systems
        • Have no problems with SSH key passphrases or security keys
        • Only require a few MB of memory
        • When run in tmux are largely resilient to SSH connection issues