I switched because my workplace has licenses for VSPro, and IT doesn’t want us grabbing our own stuff off the internet.
What a disappointment! it’s worse, and harder to use in almost every way. For the record I’m coding in Python and just need git integration and a debugger.
It’s such a step back in design language and usability. Love to ignore free software in favor of its expensive “professional” counterpart
That they share a name is misleading as vscode has infinitely more in common with atom than visual studio.
Visual Studio is great for .NET but lmao at trying to use it for python.
Also sucks that you have an IT department that considers the threat model for installing & using the latter as any different than the former.
That they share a name is misleading as vscode has infinitely more in common with atom than visual studio.
Still salty they killed the only decent Electron-based editor just to slap the M$ name on it and inject a ton of non-free telemetry.
Silly Hexbear, Visual Studio is not an upgraded counterpart of VSCode, Visual Studio is an IDE specialized for C#/Dotnet and C++ development, while VSCode is a general purpose source code editor with wide extension support for different programming languages.
Using Visual Studio for Python is like using VSCode for C#: while it is certainly possible, it would be a lot more difficult than using the proper tool for the job, so you should still stick with VSCode for Python!
Visual studio isn’t for Python so no wonder you’re having issues. Try pycharm instead of VS anything.
It sucks for .NET also, I currently waste up to an hour a day switching between different browsers for debugging and restarting the instance, sometimes my whole work laptop if that fails. All my coworkers have equally annoying but apparently unrelated problems, like maybe I could spend a couple days nailing down the issue, my younger self would have, but at this point I just don’t have the motivation. It’s sad because .NET is actually quite good, C# is a very pretty and expressive language, the compiler is nearly flawless, blazor is… not the worst framework for building a UI, even VS itself has some impressive magic it’s just slow and constantly breaks in new and exciting ways no matter what you’re using it for
lol your workplace is incompetent
I’m not a professional coder by any means but even just going from writing up short programs in notepad++ to VS feels disgusting. And I’m talking about all versions and all years. The things you people do for breakpoints is downright degrading. Just the names you have to remember for “folder”.
