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@EarthShaker

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Is it Shaker!?@EarthShaker1/25/2023, 6:04 AM

Oh Microsoft discontinued atom why am I surprised

Motherfucking FUCK I just want a good expandable text editor, who the fuck "sunsets" a fucking text editor! Fuck!!! Visual studio is a fucking CANNON when I want to shoot a spitball. This fucking ridiculous. Remember when nerds would call ms "micro$oft"? Fuck it they weren't right all along. Ms prove it every single day. Shit!!!

Man, I LIKED atom! It was easy to use! I could write HTML! And CSS! And whatever else! It ran on my fifteen years old laptop! Visual studio is FIVE GIGABYTES for the basic installation!

God I want to go walk around kicking rocks which is precisely what they'd tell me to do if I bothered complaining now. It's over. Last month it was over. Damn it!!

#frustration post #computer shit #programming #The Cohost Global Feed #rant #the realization that the time to act has not only passed, it passed months ago #fuck

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Ecter B.@ecter1/25/2023, 5:18 PM

Wait, isn't VS Code based on Atom? So, like, it's just a continuation of it. And it weighs like, about 300 megs.

Why would you install full Visual Studio for html & css work?

Is it Shaker!?@EarthShaker1/25/2023, 5:33 PM

Maybe it's just the version I had to install for rust that's so heavy, then? When I was installing it it straight up said "1.83 gb download (5 something gb when installed)"

It would be a bummer if I've embarrassed myself with ignorant loudmouth posting on the global feed, lol.

Nonetheless even vs 300mb Sublime text was positively svelte in comparison at 83 something

Ryan @fools-pyrite1/25/2023, 5:45 PM

“Visual studio” and “visual studio code” are unrelated products with frustratingly similar names; did you maybe install the IDE instead of the text editor?

Is it Shaker!?@EarthShaker1/25/2023, 6:23 PM

That is entirely possible, hahaha. Guess I'll figure it out when I get home from work this evening!

Ecter B.@ecter1/25/2023, 11:10 PM

Just as Ryan said, it's a different thingy. Link for convenience:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

If i recall correctly, it was originally a reskin of Atom with some extras by Microsoft. But yeah, its name is confusing so i'm always referring to it as "vscode" rather than its full name. It's related to the big Visual Studio just as much as JavaScript was to Java (only by name, just to mess with people).

Jenavieve Rose @Jenavieve-Rose1/26/2023, 5:16 AM

As someone who uses both I’ll never understand why Microsoft couldn’t give a unique name to VS Code lol. And yeah Atom hadn’t really been maintained in years even before the buyout. Code is pretty similar tbh and the extension support is stellar. It’s still unfortunately an electron app, but it’s fairly lightweight for one.

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