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VS Code is a significant departure from Microsoft tradition. It is open source. The original Visual Studio however is still the most professional development environment available with some of the top C++ developers on it, despite its many flaws. It is still one of the greatests threats to Apple’s platform trying to win over developers.
I am all for VS Code working. But is it working? Is Intellisense as good for simple things like navigating to a definition? Is there Intellisense for HLSL?
Why break existing C++ tools and alienate all these developers before jumping ship to something unachieved and unproven?
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I tried using VSCode some time ago, setting up the vscode settings file with the output of ue4 cmake generator.
It was somewhat faster for browsing code, following a symbol definition worked most of the time, but wasn’t as helpful as VS with Visual Assist X, so in the end was better for browsing but not so good for coding.
In the final release I will try it again, but I don’t think that I would stay. There are some useful vscode features like multiselect and sort lines that are cool, but is hard to beat the VAX refactoring features.
On the other hand, VSCode could be a powerful IDE for people working with UE4 on linux