<story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>On this day and age many don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for tools.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.</text></item><item><author>aviraldg</author><text>Try WebStorm. I&amp;#x27;m surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markcerqueira</author><text>&amp;gt; On this day and age many don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for tools.&lt;p&gt;Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we&amp;#x27;d all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I&amp;#x27;d much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.</text></comment>
<story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>On this day and age many don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for tools.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.</text></item><item><author>aviraldg</author><text>Try WebStorm. I&amp;#x27;m surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kozikow</author><text>&amp;gt; On this day and age many don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for tools.&lt;p&gt;Main part of pycharm is free and open source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;pycharm&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;pycharm-3-0-community-edition-source-code-now-available&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;pycharm&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;pycharm-3-0-commu...&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.&lt;p&gt;One reason for multitude of emacs extensions is the open source nature. Average IntelliJ user is less likely to write extension than emacs user.</text></comment>