I have not used an IDE since I ditched Turbo Pascal in middle school, but now I am at a place where everyone and their mother uses VS Code and so I'm giving it a shot.
The thing is, I'm finding the "just works" mantra is not true at all. Nothing is working out of the box. And then for each separate extension I have to figure out how to fix it. Or I just give up and circumvent it by using the terminal.
What's even the point then?
IDK maybe its a matter of getting used to something new, but I was doing fine with just vim and tmux.
What do you mean fix it? I haven't had an issue with vscode or extensions unless I was going against established patterns.
For an actual recommendation, if you were fine with tmux and vim rock em yo. Don't forget vim has panes as well.
Platformio maybe?
That thing just sometimes won't work on some PCBs unless you explicitly specify a build option (I had it once that I had to specify a build option that was already specified in that board configuration)
Installing pycom stuff too. All of their software is crap (hardware isn't amazing either) so their released version simply didn't work by default on a fresh installation and the fix was to roll back to the previous version manually.