What’s even the point then?
The point is that you can enable each separate extension you want running on your code editor or uninstall them if you’re unsatisfied. This makes it as light as you want it to be - or as heavy as you need it to.
I was doing fine with just vim and tmux
VSCode is like vim
without vim controls and in a browser. Seen that way, it makes more sense. With Vim, you have to hunt for obscure Github repositories and follow arcane installation instructions for hidden extensions that you may or may not need and you have to learn a whole-ass keyboard-shortcut-based programming language just to use any of it.
With VSCode, you click on Extensions, search what you want and it’ll probably be there unless it’s a toxic ecosystem like PHP/C# or some niche ecosystem that no one heard about.
That UI is called VSCode
At the top of your
.yaml
file, you can set a JSON Schema. Example:# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/prometheus.json scrape_configs: - job_name: caddy static_configs: - targets: - caddy:2019
This way, you don’t have to memorize every possible setting and what it does and risk making a typo in the config. VSCode will just tell you.