Atom vs VSCode VSCode or Atom?

Which one do you prefer and why?

• VS Code
• Atom
• Sublime Text
• Brackets
• Emacs
• Notepad++

Comments

[Azalea]

I'm a real noob when it comes to coding. And I can only give a perspective of a person who's just starting out.

VSCode scared the hell out of me and I'm not one to get easily scared with new things. Maybe cause I'm insanely curious about it that I was investigating on how to configure it to just give me an easy 'corrective' function, automatic 'pairing' of tags as well as the usual brackets and stuff. I still can't figure out how although there are barrages of resources on configurations in the Net. I can't seem to get any configurations right but I believe, perhaps I understood it wrongly (?). Especially since I'm just playing with JavaScript API and HTML for now, so...I can't brain advanced stuff just yet.

Atom has a beautiful interface and I tried it for a time, but some of the plugins I wanted to use can't be installed; maybe it's just my computer (?). But I am pretty sure it is as 'hackable' as they said; so many options to personalize it to your work.

Brackets is awesome and yes, it's very useful for front-end web development. I was very in love with the 'live preview' but for some reason, one day it did not work for me and I tried troubleshooting. Still could not find the reason why it did not work.

Now, I'm staying with Notepad++ since I just code simple stuff for exercises and tools for our GIS tasks at work. It's simple and for me, kinda 'idiot-proof'.

I am sure all the mentioned editors are awesome. As mentioned before, it comes down to what defaults you like better and which pre-existing workflow it takes to configure it to your need that you prefer more.

[Mahesh Sunuwar]

I haven't used Atom much but i prefer VS Code for its various out of the box features/support for various stacks, mainly .NET.

[Saugat Rai]

I have tried brackets, sublime, atom and vscode.
I love Vs Code for its extensions and faster load. I tried Atom but it took time to open the app. I have also used sublime for 1 and half year. The keymaps for sublime is great. Thankfully, VS Code support keymapping of sublime.
I am currently using VS Code. I love its project manager extension which helps to switch between projects easily.

[bvmcode]

I am a VS Code fan but I've never used Atom so it wouldn't be fair for me to compare them. I've stopped using PyCharm in favor of VS Code for python, and for javascript it's a slam dunk. VS Code is light weight and setting it up for your needs is relatively easy. I am not a huge fan of MS products but this one is great and ironically its one of their free products.

[Ben Halpern]

I'm curious about the future of Atom in general.

I made another #discuss post with some questions there if anyone cares to weigh in:

Is there a future for the Atom editor?

Ben Halpern ・ 1 min read

#discuss #editors

[Roman Semenov]

Sublime when I need to quickly open something simple, IntelliJ if I want to work on it more than 15min. Removing everything except code window (even tabs and line numbers) from IDE makes much more pleasant to use, looks like a text editor. And it's very fast too if you don't count load time, faster than vscode or atom.

[Arnyminer Z]

For working with Git, VSCode. No use as a single-file text editor, I used to use Notepad++, but I changed to Sublime Text 3 for having a more modern IDE. Also, for PlatformIO development is really comfortable to use VSCode.

[saint4eva]

Though both VS Code and Atom are amazing products from Microsoft, I prefer VS Code to Atom.

[Shah Nawaz Shuvo]

I use VS Code for over 2 years now. It serves me well. VS code has all the extensions you need and it is well maintained. Sublime text 3 is also very good and very lightweight. But finally you should use what YOU like most and what serves YOUR purpose the best.

[prassee]

add emacs to this list

[Ali Abbas]

Okay👍

[Florian Rand]

And vim\neovim 😋

[Dom]

WebStorm in my case 🙂
But VSCode is awesome as well!

[Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦]

Atom, obviously 😉

Vim mode plus is a joy
Tones of plugins
And prior to the MS buyout I could claim it wasn't MS software.

[Jameel Ahmed]

Vs Code

[Younes ADIL]

Vs code is the best code editor

[Melroy van den Berg]

Vs code is really missing some key refactoring features for c/c++!! Argh! Atom is therefor still winning together with Sublime text, although I don't like the ui of Sublime