I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
  • @[email protected]English
    3•9 months ago

    Maybe I am not advance users so I don’t usually run into issues that much. Things I use (for C++):

    • find usage
    • rename functions(refractor?) so I don’t have to hunt them down
    • debug stepping/watch
    • P4 integration
    • the auto prompt/complete
    • they have good Unreal Engine integration so I can also know if a function is called/used in a blueprint.
    • @[email protected]
      2•9 months ago

      Nah, probably just due to different languages I’d guess. I’ve mostly had issues with it creating Python virtual envs, I always have to manually create one because it just breaks. There’s a bug on the jetbrains tracker that’s been open for this for more than a year. The run config doesn’t respect environment variables, despite having a box for it. And I have constant problems with their remote development feature, though I know that’s in beta. Just really disappointing honestly. I hate when my IDE gets in the way of development.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•9 months ago

        make sense, python really does not have a good ide for it and I don’t understand why, cause it’s so widely used. I wrote some python tools for Unreal Engine and I still use the old execute, check exception output method. (since UE’s python binding is kinda tacked on afterward so their modules and exposed functions are tied directly to their C++ counter part. compare to other more mature DCC tool(like Maya, Houdini) you can pretty much run things in python mode without opening the editor.