Comparing BED and Visual Studio Code

[Ad_Rienks]

I must confess that I am an enthousiastic user of Visual Studio Code; mostly used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other tools related to the before mentioned. And most of the time I also use the command line / terminal for the execution etc. of applications.

But that has nothing to do with BCX Basic, has it?

MrBcx developed and offered the user BED, also an editor with handy tools implemented.

Comparing the two, BED vs VSC, there are lots of features in VSC that I like - I don't know if it would be possible to implement (some of) these in BED?

Like f.i.:
- code completion [`and something like TabNine extension in VSC`]
- bracket completion and matching
- automatic indenting while I am coding
- code coloring => BED has some, but would more be better?

just a few things I think of.

MrB might have his reasons for not implementing many `bells & whistles`, I am curious  to hear the arguments.

Disclaimer: I like BED, and for a quick test it is very usefulll.

[MrBcx]

I must confess that I am an enthousiastic user of Visual Studio Code; mostly used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other tools related to the before mentioned. And most of the time I also use the command line / terminal for the execution etc. of applications.

But that has nothing to do with BCX Basic, has it?

MrBcx developed and offered the user BED, also an editor with handy tools implemented.

Comparing the two, BED vs VSC, there are lots of features in VSC that I like - I don't know if it would be possible to implement (some of) these in BED?

Like f.i.:
- code completion [`and something like TabNine extension in VSC`]
- bracket completion and matching
- automatic indenting while I am coding
- code coloring => BED has some, but would more be better?

just a few things I think of.

MrB might have his reasons for not implementing many `bells & whistles`, I am curious  to hear the arguments.

Disclaimer: I like BED, and for a quick test it is very usefulll.

Hi Ad,

We all have our favorite bells and whistles.  The ones I've added to BED, you may not have a use for.

I'm also a fan of the sayings, "Less is more"   and   "Keep it simple stupid"

Visual Studio will always be more capable than most other IDE's.  I'm fine with that.
But for me, VS is bloated, cluttered, confusing, and I simply don't need it and don't use it.

[airr]

Hi, Ad.

Fellow Visual Studio Code and 90% terminal user here.

How does Tabnine compare to Codium?  Just curious.

AIR.

[Ad_Rienks]

Hi, Ad.

Fellow Visual Studio Code and 90% terminal user here.

How does Tabnine compare to Codium?  Just curious.

AIR.

Hi, AIR.

I don't know Codium; in fact; I've never heard of it 

And for TabNine: simply try out the free features, and see how you like it.

Success!

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