You know I actually used to think like you once. When I only wanted to be a professional code monkey. I am glad I don't think like that anymore. There are better things to be than someone who's job is just to write code. Code is after all a means to an end. Now when I write code it's with an actual goal in mind.
Writing code is something that's largely being automated by LLMs and AI. Some will still be needed, the best and the brightest of programmers, but I don't think that's you. Any who go learn cyber security or AI or something. You would make more money there anyway. If not your going to have to learn to work with LLMs, and to fix their code. Cause there sure aren't going to be many programming jobs in the future that don't involve using them.
In neovim you can have a terminal inside a buffer. So you can have a terminal and your code open side by side like you would in a modern IDE, or emacs for that matter.
Bro who do you think your talking to? It already is like that for me for programming languages. I've certainly programmed in enough of them. The more likely option is that you will be working in an already established code base and have to use what they are already using or want you to use. You sound like a hobby programmer. That or someone at a company using microservices for everything.
I am a PhD student doing stuff about cyber security and AI. So no programming is not my primary field anymore.
I am kind of surprised someone who's primary job is programming has such problems using a tool like VSCode that's supposed to be usable by even beginners.
I've used Eclipse, Jet Brains, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, vim, Cursor, and more for programming. I've played around with even more besides that. I don't owe loyalty to any of these. Hence me having no issue with you using Jet Brains. It's saved my ass a few times as well. That doesn't make it perfect anymore than any of the others are perfect.
VSCode and Visual Studio aren't from the same code base. They aren't commonly used for the same things, or on the same platforms. Do you think they are comparable because they have similar names?
Not understanding how to use the thing doesn't make it bad. It's no wonder your confused if you think it's an alternative to Visual Studio.
I actually like JetBrains too. It isn't mutually exclusive to only like one or the other.
You haven't made a single real argument either.
Here let me make mine:
VSCode works with a huge range of languages, is very flexible and extendable, and has great support for remote development, development in containers, and even has cloud hosted IDEs based on it (Eclipse Che anyone?). Despite being web based it's somehow faster/lighter than JetBrains. It's also less expensive with fully open source versions available.
Edit: also I wasn't being condescending until people started attacking me for an incredibly uncontroversial opinion. Your the one being condescending here.
Yet VSCode is one of the most popular IDEs with many other IDEs being forks of it.
I am amazed this is even remotely controversial. It's one of the few products they make that's actually good. Just tells you how far off the real world most Lemmy users are lol.
I am not going to argue if it is better or worse than vim. I actually use both; they both have strengths and weaknesses imo. I use them for different tasks. I will say though that VSCode is extremely popular for programming and for good reasons. It's a good product, one of the best things Microsoft make.
There are to my knowledge two instances of this happening. One involving openai the other involving character.ai. Only one of these involved an autistic person. Unless you know of more?
I also think it's too soon to blame the AI here. Suicide rates in autistic people are ridiculously high. Something like 70% of autistic people experience suicidal ideation. No one really cared about this before AI. It's almost like we are being used as a moral argument once again. It's like think of the children but for disabled people.
You know I actually used to think like you once. When I only wanted to be a professional code monkey. I am glad I don't think like that anymore. There are better things to be than someone who's job is just to write code. Code is after all a means to an end. Now when I write code it's with an actual goal in mind.
Writing code is something that's largely being automated by LLMs and AI. Some will still be needed, the best and the brightest of programmers, but I don't think that's you. Any who go learn cyber security or AI or something. You would make more money there anyway. If not your going to have to learn to work with LLMs, and to fix their code. Cause there sure aren't going to be many programming jobs in the future that don't involve using them.