Why do most developers not like it? Is it because the browser is a terrible platform for text editors since there is no proper key mapping, or access to proper debuggers, or there is too much latency, and no access to cli tools?
You make it sound like you are surprised, but everyone who has tried this knows it's crap and a band aid at best.
What is a real text editor, by your estimation? NVim? Emacs? Genuinely curious.
I use VSCode/Codium since I maintain a GUI stack for general usage. But I have all the terminal tools installed for my work there as well. I hate customizing things too, which I find is necessary if you want to get the most out of terminal text editors. VSCode is pretty good out of the box, with terminal access and everything built in.
Jeez, I hope this doesn't turn into a text editor flame war...
I'll say my biggest recent gripe with VS Code, is since they started collapsing bits in the terminal, when I type a command and hit enter, if I start typing the next command before the first command is done, the input gets mangled.
It doesn't happen in MS Terminal (new Windows Terminal) and it doesn't happen in Tabby (which is also Electron+xterm.js), so it's a recent unique to VS Code bug... and it's annoying to no end for me. I actually rely on the integrated code terminal a lot.
You make it sound like you are surprised, but everyone who has tried this knows it's crap and a band aid at best.