VSCode

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I run everything within VSCode. Almost never have to use the terminal.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “there's generate commit message functionality in vscode just works on a click”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “use vscode extensions for the same type of things locally… and basically have Q and A Via copilot and it does a surprisingly good job of navigating it”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “When using something like Sublime or VSCode, I'm always hunting through menus, documentation and search engines to do something simple like ":%!sort -u".”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “reviewing code in VSCode is starting to get annoying and I began to think that VSCode is no longer suitable for development in the AI era”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “lean4 is a vscode only experience IMHO, this is partially because the default Mathlib4 style is really unapproachable without the tooling”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “Opening up a blank vscode is a simple joy of life I refuse to give up :-)”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-03

• “on linux vscode, i cannot find the agent mode in the chat window”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-06-30

• “VSCode is unmatched and top notch when it comes to Amiga and C64 coding cross platform”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-27

• “When i scroll a buffer in VSCode (an electron app) it's buttery smooth”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “clicking it transforms VSCode from a code editor to a Claude/Codex clone”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “Deno has a good VSCode extension with test helpers and a fast language server”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “Something to replace vscode with to avoid switching from the terminal. It's at a stage where I am no longer opening vscode.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-19

• “pretty much just happy turning on emacs keybindings in VSCode”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “the Chat function in VSCode is choking on the Ollama responses”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “my personal preference for having a chat window inside VSCode”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “I can generate PDF without installing any new software other than vscode which I already have”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “New dev onboard takes 10 minutes from zero to dev env with VSCode remote development”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “isn't quite as nice as Copilot Chat deeply integrated into VSCode”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “it takes so much longer to start VSCode when connecting with WSL”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “Continue on vscode with Ollama running (start it with "ollama serve") is great.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “"Open in VS Code" button (which in my case opens a local VSCode client pointing to a remote VSCode server) are critical for me”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-22

• “I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “I much prefer using Gemini CLI in combination with vscode. It works like a charm.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “I found it neat to be able to point vscode at a c++ codebase and say "enable wextra, build the code, tell me if there is any low-hanging fruit I can clean up" and get a useful response”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-21