This new IDE supposedly also works with PHP. Has anyone tried it out yet?
Scott
Just to be clear there are extensions to the full blown Visual Studio that enables it to work with PHP too. Since I use the full blown visual studio at work and home, I have little desire to try out the lighter weight IDE.
But yes, it is designed to be a cross platform light weight IDE, any language should be able to make use of it.
Yeah. I am a PHPStorm fan and user. So my interest in using MSCode is very small. Maybe just to play with it. I was wondering if someone already did. If they liked it, I might have a bit more motivation to try it out.
Scott
I’m a Jetbrains fan as well but as a free alternative it might be worth a look. I’m semi intrigued. Seeing the screenshots it reminds me of atom.
I first problem I’m having is figuring out how to connect my vagrant boxes like I would in PHPStorm to activate debugging and command line session within the IDE. That is a deal breaker. The other thing I don’t like is how the settings and preferences are just json files. Clever, simple sure but not very user friendly in my opinion. My initial impression is it seems like a nice, lightweight editor but far from the workhorse the JetBrains line of products are. For a text editor though I still prefer TextWrangler and Notepad++ myself.
Yeah, I think comparing PHPStorm to MSCode isn’t really fair. Probably be better to compare it against Atom, as they are both JS/ Node apps.
Scott
If that is all we are getting from node apps its not a world I want to live in. It just semes like everything in node js is so dumbed down in terms of intelligent user features. The same thing with atom which is why I never really got into it. I prefer the robustness of c or java desktop application.
Since PHPStorm is an IDE while Code is an editor, I am afraid the initial assumption of this thread was wrong.
Compared to most IDEs that I have used, Code starts up very quickly and thus is great for ad hoc file reviews. It also has a rather unusual approach to tracking multiple open files which I hope some of the other IDEs will adopt.
But for most actual application development? Of course a decent IDE will offer a far wider range of tools. It’s what they do.
I’ve downloaded and installed it. So far I can see why a comparison with Atom is being made. What I’ve not really had chance to do is use it for anything close to productive (same goes for Atom to be fair). At this point, I’m not necessarily seeing any advantages over what I can do with SublimeText3, but then I’m hardly what you’d call a hardcore user.
What? The assumption that Code is an IDE? It isn’t an assumption. It is an (albeit very basic) IDE. It can debug JS and with extensions, other languages. But, as their own FAQs mention, it “leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs”.
Scott
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