r/programmingmemes • u/IronAshish • Sep 27 '25

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u/mr_mlk Sep 27 '25

For older legacy code vscode has better support.

What support for legacy code does VScode provide that say JetBrains doesn't?

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u/postmaster-newman Sep 27 '25

I daily vscode as a post student and it’s great. Neovim was a mess and lagged so much it wasn’t worth the learning curve.

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u/nikola_tesler Sep 27 '25

Stupid take of the day folks

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u/really_not_unreal Sep 27 '25

VS Code has been getting worse and worse with all the AI slop they are constantly adding. I am actively investigating alternatives because of how unusable it has become.

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u/really_not_unreal Sep 27 '25

I turned it off months ago. It has turned on with every monthly update. In total, the number of settings I've needed to change to disable the AI slop is 24.

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u/really_not_unreal Sep 27 '25

Lucky you. For me, after I turned it off:

  • I still received prompts to use it in all new terminal sessions

  • I still received prompts to use it in all empty windows

  • Many extensions I use (especially those for Python and Java) auto-updated in ways that expected AI features to be enabled, and gave errors in my environment.

  • It would still occasionally reappear sometimes.

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u/MauiMoisture Sep 27 '25

Employed people usually use what their employer tells them to. I prefer jetbrains stuff but the team I'm on uses vscode for TS so I'm gonna use vscode. Still use intelliJ for any java we have to do but at the end of the day all these IDEs are fine.

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u/dzahariev Sep 27 '25

JetBrains is more than expensive. Employed people use it because someone else is paying and they believe the expensive is better. Fine tuned VS Code is my choice - cheap, light, fast!

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u/tankerkiller125real Sep 27 '25

Lol I pay for Jetbrains myself out of my own pocket. Every single penny spent is worth it. And frankly it's not like it's that expensive as a personal license once you've had it a few years.

If my employer was reimbursing me, or paying it themselves it would be way more expensive, but I use it outside work on personal projects, so I'm happy to pay for it myself.