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How VSCode Made Me 10x Developer
When I am talking with my friends about popular code editors and IDE’s like all normal people do, I always cop out from all votes in favor of any other IDE than VSCode with one word: “refactoring”.
If you didn’t use VSCode, but some kind of stormy or moony IDE, you have to read it! You don’t have to be sad anymore that navigating through your code and refactoring is so tedious and nebulous!
I know you have to go to the menu of the application to find a search feature between twenty other menu items. And even then, the search does not give you too much info. If you close the search to open a file you are interested in, the search window is gone. You have to find the menu item again and again and again.
It is perfectly understandable that programmers become adhedonic to searching anything, and particularly to refactor the code.
Refactoring with VSCode
I will show how VSCode makes refactoring large codebase a breze. Just for starters: I can search anything across the project. I don’t have to find and open any menu item. I have the search tab visibile all the time:
