thanks microsoft! i just followed the account!
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Lea.pet also got a c&d for @apple@lea.pet
Let's save this post for the next follow friday...
Streisand effect in full swing too. I'm now following @Microsoft@lea.pet :)
I don't get fediverse either. How do I follow that from a Lemmy app. The link dosnt work.
Lemmy doesn't support following people, you need a mastodon or Sharkey account for that. Check sharkey.world and mas.to
They don't really understand their user base either
Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, they suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they're starting to suck at owning github, what don't they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.
They rock at being the default. As much as I love LibreOffice MS office is probably the best office suite I've used too.
VSCode
You're talking to a vim user. If you even suggest that a MS product is better I'll go crazy and crush up my own teeth into dust and then put it in my morning breakfast milk to make Teeth Milk (Tilk)
You've been warned.
(It's 6 in the morning and I still haven't slept I'm really sorry about this but this reply seems really funny to me so I'm posting against my better judgement)
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.
Out of interest: why vim and not neovim?
Vscode being more accessible than Visual doesn't actually mean anything in the grand scheme of code creation. Both sucks btw.
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.
Popular. So coca cola is the best drink?
JetBrains are miles ahead visual code for example.
Funny how you just have to be condescending, almost like you don't have any real arguments. But keep on being "amazed", bet you're "amazed" about ai vibe coding, I mean it is all the rage ...
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.
I'm being condescending lol? No u 😁
So as I thought you don't have a real point. You just came here to call the popular thing bad for not fitting your tastes.
You're just angry your favourite IDE gets bashed lol.
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.
Just use the one you like for sure. That's what smart people tend to do. One day it'll be like that with programming languages, everyone has their favourite(s) but sometimes you have to code in Java because that's simpler to use in a specific setting.
Is the feud over 😋 ?
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.
Lol try harder, angry noob.
What does JetBrains do that makes it miles ahead?
On mint it actually finds the C# sources in Godot, for example. It also easily "compiles" and launches the soft through Godot, with working debugging. Vscode is a nightmare to set up, there are configs, other files, project files, and other parameters that just aren't taken into account. Or having, gasp, code in a folder, it just isn't getting scanned by vscode. You can surely get it to work, but if you don't use the base boilerplate setup it just doesn't function well at all.
I have used visual studio since early 2000 and it was good, then it became bloated, and vscode is IMO just a lighter version of that bloated visual.
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.
Now you're at it again, putting words in my mouth and behind condescending. I used visual studio when you were probably in diapers (see how nice it is when someone is gratiously attacking you?), and who cares what Codebase is used lol, what an asinine remark.
Who started attacking who here?
I have been programming in some capacity for about 12 or 13 years now. Let's not argue seniority here.
With 3 years of full-time professional experience or less I bet.
But you already know how to use a downvote, so you're not a noob any more!
Welcome to the internet.
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.
Ahahahaha
"I'm a PHD" and I know my ways around internet discussions! Watch out! I have a paper proving my worth!
So that's why you smell of Dunning-Kruger when it comes to programming.
If I had a dollar for every PhD, researcher or manager thinking they knew programming... Lots of people out of cs school too. You just don't wing programming.
Continue doing "stuff with ai and cyber security" if that floats your boat, but you sure do need to hone your "internet discussion" skills 😁.
They suck at making everything except money.
That's called a scam artist, and honestly that's not far off at all. They did some sneaky shit to maintain a monopoly.
let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king
AI putting copyright troll lawyers out of jobs? Best use I’ve heard of yet.
Look ma, my instance is being threatened! Proud to be on the instance of Mastodon CEO 🥹
Ok but fr, MS please don't shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
this is why niche stuff on fedi is so funny sometimes. especially when a corporate entity tried to approach it, in the most corporate way lol.
Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.
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Microsoft is such a horrid company.
I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.
It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.
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