▲ 115 ▼ In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk) submitted 3 years ago* by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org 227 comments fedilink hide all child comments I'll start: RSS and blogs, news vs. social media XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc. Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 6 points 3 years ago (5 children) Emacs vs. VS Code permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] cybersandwich@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago (2 children) I think you meant vim or neovim--the one true vim. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Emacs and vim should band together against their common VS Code enemy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago It's called evil-mode permalink fedilink source parent [–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can't just do everything in emacs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 point 3 years ago Debugging is pretty much equivalent in all editors that support Language Protocol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cybersandwich@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago (2 children) I think you meant vim or neovim--the one true vim. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Emacs and vim should band together against their common VS Code enemy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago It's called evil-mode permalink fedilink source parent
[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Emacs and vim should band together against their common VS Code enemy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago It's called evil-mode permalink fedilink source parent
[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can't just do everything in emacs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 point 3 years ago Debugging is pretty much equivalent in all editors that support Language Protocol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 point 3 years ago Debugging is pretty much equivalent in all editors that support Language Protocol permalink fedilink source parent