Anyone else using webstorm and WSL? The latest ver...
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Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:34 PMAnyone else using webstorm and WSL? The latest version (2021.3.1) is so bad I'm almost considering VSCode. VSCode is still an inferior product but I'm having lots of frustration with the recent webstorm releases.
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Alan Fitch
01/04/2022, 11:35 PMCan you explain how vscode is an inferior product?
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Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:36 PMI don't want to get off topic, but one laughable shortcoming is you can't peel off panes and have them be windows. I do that frequently with webstorm to put one or more windows temporarily on an alternate monitor for more screen space
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:37 PMwebstorm (and other real IDEs) let you drag a window out of the IDE and have it host as a top level window. Then just drag it back to re-dock.
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:39 PMI assume that capability so readily (heck, even web browsers do it) that I was shocked that VSCode doesn't support it.
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:39 PMThe one thing I see VSCode does better than webstorm is working with WSL hosted projects.
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Alan Fitch
01/04/2022, 11:40 PMhttps://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121
Someone mentioned that it would require a restructuring of the vscode internals to get it done.
See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43362133/visual-studio-code-open-tab-in-new-window
Alan Fitch
01/04/2022, 11:40 PMI use vscode because it has better support for multiple languages. And better vim support.
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Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:50 PMI don't do vim so can't comment there. Most of my work these days is TypeScript and Java/Scala or maybe Kotlin. I'd be surprised if VSCode is better for those JVM languages than IDEA. Even simple VCS (git) support is rather lame imho on VSCode compared to the IDEA platform.
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:51 PMwebstorm provides a single nice integrated experience for version control. VSCode seems to require selecting from dozens of plugins, and even then using some combination of plugins and different windows/panes to do what webstorm does much more elegantly (in regards to version control integration).
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:53 PMI can see VSCode being a good environment for more esoteric languages
Shawn Talbert
01/04/2022, 11:55 PMI get the impression (though haven't tried myself) that writing a plugin for VSCode is simpler than same for IDEA