Me as a service provider I would just want to keep the data seperated at my backend. I guess Ill need it anyways for some usecases. And after that why should I bother adding complexity to ship that data to the client side?
Right, but then you’re not building a local-first app. of course the tools that are useful for building a local-first app won’t be that relevant to you if that’s not what you’re doing!
IMHO very strong statements are always wrong -> "Therefore, challenging conversations, that are personally useful, have always been limited to small groups of people.".
History seem contradict that and to demonstrate that the conservative, quiet "middle" is almost always wrong over time. The only people who are eventually "right" are invariably considered to have strong opinions and to be fringe by the "middle".
This is almost tautological. The "middle" is where we are right now and "more right" is, by definition, not where were are right now.
Then the issue is that you don't know which is which, a priori. Most strong statements end up false, eventually. The statements that eventually end up right may have been strong all along, but most of their strong cousins will eventually end up wrong instead. Consequently, the cautious approach is to be skeptical of strong statements, since they will likely turn out false.
(I'm also not sure that the initial assumption is actually true. There are tons of examples where the strong statements have not prevailed. Remember those saying Covid-19 is a killer virus, decimating billions? Or that it's no big deal? Turned out neither. It was bad, but not that bad.)
I'd claim the opposite. The weaker a statement, the more flexible it is. A pretty much maximally weak statement is "something will or will not happen". It's true with 100% certainty. And it's quite useless, since it doesn't actually state anything meaningful. The more concrete and thus stronger you make a statement, the more you risk it turning up false. There are certainly outliers and exception, but there should be a pretty good correlation between strength of a statement and its likelihood of eventually not turning out true.
I disagree, even I use it myself, for those reasons:
- plugins are a mess - when working with tech x how do I know from that huge list which plugins to use
- keyboard shortcuts don`t work out of the box in my Ubuntu system
- The ui feels non intuitive and overbloated to me - even IntelliJ Idea feels more clean and easy to use
- I would love if VSCode could detect the technologies my project uses and just install/use the proper plugins for me. And maybe even without asking me so I could be happily writing code, building, running tests and doing debugging right from the start wether it`s Rust, Kotlin + Spring Boot, Node + Typescipt whatever... sadly its not working like this...
> - I would love if VSCode could detect the technologies my project uses and just install/use the proper plugins for me
VSCode does this already, if it detects a new language it suggests installing a new plugin. I don't know the criteria it follows to recommend a plugin, perhaps it only does it with some official plugins, but it has showed me this a few times.
