For me, it is going to be the VS Code Editor. It is an incredible piece of software. There are tons and tons of features baked into it but still its very simple to use.
The VS code dev team is phenomenal, they keep adding new features to it every month. Given how big and complex the application is, it is no easy feat to add major features every month.
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Coming from Atom, I was pretty confident that making a modern, reliable and fast IDE based on Electron was basically impossible, if not even the creators of Electron could do it.
The wow factor was so clear for early adoptors of VSCode and that was what really got my attention in the first place. It wasn't any one feature, it was the observation that people just loved it.
I found a bug in it. From the command line, if a filename could be interpreted as a number, it would be. For me, it was 2551.e12456872, which, as it turns out, is scientific notation.
Once I reported it, they pegged it as a Minimist issue, and the fix came out in ... < 2 weeks?
Which raises my opinion of the program and the team. +1.
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For me, it is going to be the VS Code Editor. It is an incredible piece of software. There are tons and tons of features baked into it but still its very simple to use.
The VS code dev team is phenomenal, they keep adding new features to it every month. Given how big and complex the application is, it is no easy feat to add major features every month.
Vscode always reminds me of the early iPhone adverts "there's an app for that" catchphrase.
I've actually said, "oh, there's an extension for that" at work before π€£
This is an excellent answer! VS Code has a je ne sais quoi about it that makes it so wonderful to work with!
Agreed. One of the most insane part of VS Code for me is how quickly it went from being a laughing stock to the de-facto editor.
Low-key shout out to Satya Nadella.
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Coming from Atom, I was pretty confident that making a modern, reliable and fast IDE based on Electron was basically impossible, if not even the creators of Electron could do it.
Glad I've been proven wrong.
one could say the same thing about GitHub Desktop which is woefully lacking - thankfully GitKraken is pretty great
Heck yes, especially for those who prefer to see the graph.
The wow factor was so clear for early adoptors of VSCode and that was what really got my attention in the first place. It wasn't any one feature, it was the observation that people just loved it.
Wrote a bit about that way back.
Why I switched from Atom to Visual Studio Code
Ben Halpern γ» Jul 11 '17 γ» 2 min read
I found a bug in it. From the command line, if a filename could be interpreted as a number, it would be. For me, it was 2551.e12456872, which, as it turns out, is scientific notation.
Once I reported it, they pegged it as a Minimist issue, and the fix came out in ... < 2 weeks?
Which raises my opinion of the program and the team. +1.