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Discussion on: Why I switched from Atom to Visual Studio Code

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Brandon Taylor

I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio code and never looked back. I mostly do TypeScript and Angular development, and the built-in TypeScript support plus a few plugins like npm Intellisense, Path Intellisense and angular2-inline make it my go-to IDE.

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Ben Halpern

I haven't gotten started with intellisense yet, but I love the idea.

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Brandon Taylor

It makes a huge difference.

The time savings alone are worth the investment, not to mention being able to do things like peek at classes, navigate to other files using Ctrl + click, etc.

I like the idea of Atom, but found it a bit slow, even on machines with i7 processors and plenty of RAM. VSC runs really fast, even on my slightly older Surface Pro 4, and even faster on my new Surface (5).

For JavaScript / TypeScript based projects, I really wouldn't want to use anything else. I still do some Python development, and that's one area where VSC could use some help.

If VSC could recognize which virtualenv is active without having to start it from the command line, that would be really convenient, and if someone would port the Anaconda plugin to VSC, I wouldn't have to use Sublime at all.