Post #4481595
2026-08-09 20:52 UTC
It’s kind of sad that many people don’t use the shell / terminal anymore, especially as part of their regular development flow. There’s so much scripting and so many shell commands you can use that will do things you just can’t do in vscode. And having an editor like vi immediately available is part of that flow.
For me, vim and the shell are my primary IDE. I rarely fire up vscode. But I guess I’m getting old. Still faster than the younger devs who mainly use vscode and then struggle when they are forced to use the command line due to whatever circumstance where vscode is not available or appropriate. Kind of makes me sad. Feels like a valuable skill is being lost.
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@fxdave@lemmy.ml 2026-08-10 07:31
I used vim, neovim, spacemacs, jetbrains, netbeans, atom etc… Now I use mainly claude code, sometimes I also open vscode. Shame because I know a lot of shortcuts, but not needed.
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@Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-08-10 12:23
Vscode has terminal built in too