Yeah,no kidding. I spent half a day looking how to set up my VS Code for Ruby and Rails, and it's currently still pretty suboptimal compared to Atom. Looking forward to that language server from the Ruby gem though!
There seems to be a lack of people interested in developing extensions for Ruby in the VS Code community. I am currently learning some TypeScript to remedy that a bit as it seems like most Ruby extensions are slowly dying from the lack of contributions. I really like VS Code, it really is a shame that Microsoft isn't maintaining Ruby like they are maintaining Python/Go/etc. I might even go over to being a vim purist if this goes on(let's hope not)
What features are you lacking compared to atom if i may ask?
Totally agree with the sentiment that there's a lack of interest in developing Ruby extensions.
I'm not too sure which features I miss from Atom since it's been almost a year since I last used it. I think my major issue with VS Code + Ruby is the slow development of features I expect to be working, like Solargraph or proper syntax highlighting. The latter might be an issue with my theme though.
Since you mentioned vim, I wonder what most Rubyists use for their text editor.
It's not just the theme, the problem really lies with the lexer for tokenization of the Ruby syntax, for example:
defmethod(argument)putsargumentendmethodargument
This is a valid and widely used way to call a method with just one argument(if I'm not mistaken, RuboCop's default config even throws a warning if parentheses are used), but as you can see, it doesn't get highlighted correctly.
I stumbled across this research by JetBrains a few days ago, it has the statistics of preferred editors for Ruby developers amongst other things.
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Yeah,no kidding. I spent half a day looking how to set up my VS Code for Ruby and Rails, and it's currently still pretty suboptimal compared to Atom. Looking forward to that language server from the Ruby gem though!
There seems to be a lack of people interested in developing extensions for Ruby in the VS Code community. I am currently learning some TypeScript to remedy that a bit as it seems like most Ruby extensions are slowly dying from the lack of contributions. I really like VS Code, it really is a shame that Microsoft isn't maintaining Ruby like they are maintaining Python/Go/etc. I might even go over to being a vim purist if this goes on(let's hope not)
What features are you lacking compared to atom if i may ask?
Totally agree with the sentiment that there's a lack of interest in developing Ruby extensions.
I'm not too sure which features I miss from Atom since it's been almost a year since I last used it. I think my major issue with VS Code + Ruby is the slow development of features I expect to be working, like Solargraph or proper syntax highlighting. The latter might be an issue with my theme though.
Since you mentioned vim, I wonder what most Rubyists use for their text editor.
It's not just the theme, the problem really lies with the lexer for tokenization of the Ruby syntax, for example:
This is a valid and widely used way to call a method with just one argument(if I'm not mistaken, RuboCop's default config even throws a warning if parentheses are used), but as you can see, it doesn't get highlighted correctly.
I stumbled across this research by JetBrains a few days ago, it has the statistics of preferred editors for Ruby developers amongst other things.