As annoying as they can sometimes be, the little tips that pop up every now with "Hey did you know you can do this?" are a neat little solution to this. Really like the unobtrusive ones like the GitHub "ProTip!" at the bottom of the pull requests page
It does get a bit ridiculous though. There's entire sites and content creators focused solely on VS Code tips. At what point are we gonna end up with engineers working on adding a feature to VS Code that they didn't know already existed?
The tips aren’t really a solution to this, because they don’t give you a general introduction and big-picture explanations about the system as a whole, and about the individual features in context. They are useful to inform you about the presence of a new feature when you’re already familiar with the software overall. Even then, they don’t go into any depth about the various aspects of the feature and how it interacts with other features and in different configurations, etc. In a good manual, you would get a whole short (or long) chapter about the feature.
> the little tips that pop up every now with "Hey did you know you can do this?"
I don't think those have ever come up at the right time, usually only when I'm halwfway in the middle of an action, and not in the headspace for a tutorial or tip.
And that tiny little tooltip, that offers no screenshot or example gif isn't going to get me to learn.
It does get a bit ridiculous though. There's entire sites and content creators focused solely on VS Code tips. At what point are we gonna end up with engineers working on adding a feature to VS Code that they didn't know already existed?