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"upgraded" to Visual Studio Pro after using Visual Studio Code for years

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

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  • That really sucks, I hate having to use overengineered garbage. Any half decent text editor, Git and GDB have already fixed 99.5% of our problems, having a bloated IDE that tries to do some of the remaining 0.05% but the core functionality becomes so much harder to access is a huge bummer.

  • Yeah python isn't really a language that visual studio targets. Its mainly for C# or C++ development, which allow for more dedicated tooling beyond just writing code. VSCode is much more suitable for things like python or javascript.

    Personally I love Visual Studio. It can be a bit slow in some ways, but the tooling is so good around debugging or running/writing tests. Also refactoring is super easy with it.

  • For your job you definitely should try to convince them to let you use some combination of Jupyter or iPython with some better and lighter editor like Emacs. Apparently there's a new thing called Lapce. VSOld is just not what you want there, and it's too big for just a debugger and git integration.

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