I've started working through "How To Design Programs" and it calls for using DrRacket. It didn't occur to me to see if there was support for Racket in VSCode. Per this article, there is, via extensions.
For anyone who has worked through HTDP: is there any benefit to sticking with DrRacket vs using VSCode? The friction involved in moving around in DrRacket really dampens my enjoyment of the material in HTDP.
My intro CS class was in Racket. Probably 99% of people used DrRacket and were fine with it (to be fair that was the you haven't really programmed before class). I had to use it for some of the graphics assignments and it's... fine?
If you're going to keep using it, make your life easier and use a proper monospace font (like Consolas). The default (I think Cambria?) doesn't align parentheses and brackets with each other and it makes it hard to read (at least for me).
For anyone who has worked through HTDP: is there any benefit to sticking with DrRacket vs using VSCode? The friction involved in moving around in DrRacket really dampens my enjoyment of the material in HTDP.