In all seriousness, it is. Most IDEs have a way of navigating to web pages, editing text, running commands, attaching debuggers...
You know what Linux lets me do?
Navigate to web pages, edit text, run command, and attach debuggers. And I can configure it exactly how I want it.
But what's even better? Parts of my IDE are available everywhere in the world - even Vim, my usual text editor. But I can also edit text with emacs or nano or ed(browse) or... whatever.
It's definitely worth learning a tool like VSCode, but if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, Linux is the way to go.
Also, if you do use something like Visual Studio or VS Code, I highly recommend a macro that will launch a proper editor like vim. Yeah, you can edit code in VS, but I really only find it's useful for composing code. You can edit code much, much, faster in Vim when you're doing anything but the most trivial actions.
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That'll open VSCodium to the same line and column the cursor is on in Vim. I do that to make use of the former's debugger, which I find a lot easier to use than Vdebug.
I don't use VSCode on my personal machine, but if I did, I'd change open to gnome-open.
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Linux is my IDE.
In all seriousness, it is. Most IDEs have a way of navigating to web pages, editing text, running commands, attaching debuggers...
You know what Linux lets me do?
Navigate to web pages, edit text, run command, and attach debuggers. And I can configure it exactly how I want it.
But what's even better? Parts of my IDE are available everywhere in the world - even Vim, my usual text editor. But I can also edit text with emacs or nano or ed(browse) or... whatever.
It's definitely worth learning a tool like VSCode, but if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, Linux is the way to go.
Also, if you do use something like Visual Studio or VS Code, I highly recommend a macro that will launch a proper editor like vim. Yeah, you can edit code in VS, but I really only find it's useful for composing code. You can edit code much, much, faster in Vim when you're doing anything but the most trivial actions.
I use this on my work Mac:
That'll open VSCodium to the same line and column the cursor is on in Vim. I do that to make use of the former's debugger, which I find a lot easier to use than Vdebug.
I don't use VSCode on my personal machine, but if I did, I'd change
opentognome-open.