I don't really get the appeal of "heavy" code editors like emacs, vscode and IDEs in general. What benefits are you really getting? genuinely I want to know.
Like micro, gedit, helix seem to have more than enough features even nano is workable. Maybe I just like things simple?
@budsofstone i like vscode's integration with WSL, git, custom extensions, linters, finding function definitions and references (which is language-dependant), etc
@budsofstone don't use it as much but being able to call tasks like build, run tests
@mavica_again interesting, seems like the main draw is to just have everything in one "place" so to speak
@budsofstone not just in one place but highly integrated. when i'm making git commits i can see what the diffs were within the file i'm editing, instead of switching to a different window, looking at a diff that does not look like where i edited the file, and losing that short-term memory
