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Discussion on: I stopped using Visual Studio Code

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pO0q πŸ¦„

The "Storm suite" is amazing. It's not exactly the cheapest service, but it's totally worth it. I think you're right to switch to a more specialized IDE that fits your needs.

What I don't appreciate in VSCode is the telemetry enabled by default. It collects lots of data. Of course, you can disable tracking in the settings, but most users won't do it.

I'm not that surprised, considering it's a Microsoft product. For those who look for an alternative, there's also VS codium, which is an open-source clone.

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Chris Bongers

I also used Atom before, cool product, but also started to crash almost daily πŸ˜…
For me WebStorm solves all my problems at this point in my career, so very happy with it.

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pO0q πŸ¦„

It's VS codium.

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AfterNoonPM

Yeah, atom does that sometimes.
Also github decided to sunset(discontinue) it, so they're archiving the repo in december. Kinda sad, especially because I had finally found an editor I liked, but after the announcement, I switched to vscode, and it's working great!

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Renan Franca

Thank you! I disable telemetry πŸ‘