Visual Studio Code became my de facto default editor (well, other than vim
back in 2016 (years before I joined Microsoft) simply because it was inhumanly fast for an Electron application and completely usable on Mac and Linux from day one.
Throughout the years, its Monaco
editor, support for every single programming language I wanted to use and explosive extension ecosystem just made it better and more “sticky”, and I use it daily on almost every single device I own (including the iPad, via Blink).
Interesting Extensions
Category | Date | Link | Notes |
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Debugging | 2022 | debug-visualizer | |
Diagramming | draw.io | ||
Notetaking | 2024 | Foam | way better than Obsidian for my use case |
2023 | VS Code Wiki | mostly compatible with |
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2022 | Markdown+Math |