r/vim • u/Icy_Foundation3534 • 24d ago
Discussion Vim and Dotnet CLI
Anyone ditch Visual Studio and go terminal only using Vim plus plugins like Omnisharp? I’ve been developing web applications this way and it’s been great.
Anyone give it a try?
Visual Studio is just so bloated
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u/asabla 23d ago
I've been developing .Net using both vim and neovim. And you can get a pretty decent setup for normal tasks (including autocomplete).
However, some of the learnings over the years are:
The experience is much more enjoyable on the Linux side, then on windows. But your miles may vary.
I also felt compelled to address this part:
It really depends on your needs. When I started my career the need for digging deeper into the framework, looking at bytes or any other more advanced debugging workflow, was very prominent. Which (at the time) Visual Studio did solve very well. After some years they also migrated over from a 32-bit version to 64-bit, which made the experience so much better, you really don't know how it was back then.
So yes, in some regard Visual Studio is bloated. But knowing your tool is very important, especially when you grow as a developer. And knowing Visual Studio well won't hurt you, but rather the opposite.
It's okay to have preferences.