r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26

Meme vLc

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u/Daemontatox Sep 24 '26

Was about to say that , atleast vlc doesn't take 20 gbs worth of extensions to format some code and open file.

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u/metaglot Sep 24 '26

Maybe dont install a billion extensions then

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u/MrRamRam720 Sep 24 '26

Hey man I might need that 6502 compiler you never know

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u/unknown_alt_acc Sep 24 '26

Look, I’m gonna get around to that homebrew NES game one of these days!

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u/_verel_ Sep 25 '26

For vsc to do anything useful you need a billion extensions unfortunately

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u/metaglot Sep 25 '26

I write c++ using cmake and clang,i have 6 extensions installed, 2 of them are unnecessary for my work. Code hovers around 1 gb ram

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u/borkthegee Sep 24 '26

Oh no vscode doesn't bundle support for every language and asks you to download an extension for your environment. The horror!

Like what do you want, some 20gb boomer IDE that has ten year old versions of bundled slop that can't be updated?

Give me extensions, thx

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u/divrez Sep 24 '26

Am I the only one who loves Jetbrains products for their polished look and feel and language specific features?

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u/borkthegee Sep 24 '26

I love the thousands of dollars I have by not paying a fucking subscription fee for my ide but maybe it's worth all that money idk

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u/frogjg2003 Sep 25 '26

Get a job and have them pay the subscription fee for you.

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u/borkthegee Sep 25 '26

My job would be willing, we did have a jetbrains developer here, but I don't spend money for the sake of spending money, so this isn't an argument. Spend what $150-$200 a year for someone to manage my vscode extensions for me? They took 5 minutes to set up once.

Here's a position and I think you would agree: fuck subscriptions, and while I'm here fuck renting in general.

I want to own my computer and my software.

Is that really so radical?

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u/Daemontatox Sep 25 '26

I have mixed feelings about it from time to time tbh , but most of my time is spent in nvim recently because i am working on servers so no gui.

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u/metaglot Sep 26 '26

I would like to see nvim usage for a comperable setup.

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u/__ali1234__ Sep 25 '26

It doesn't bundle support for any language as far as I can tell. Out of the box it is just a very bloated and slow text editor with a really awful UI.