Atom vs VSCode VSCode or Atom?

Which one do you prefer and why?

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

Comments

[webdeasy.de]

I don't understand why Sublime Text 3 is not so popular or well known among developers. I've been using Sublime Text 3 for many years because it's incredibly fast and you can install a plugin for everything. It's also very clear and simple.

[najmi]

Hi ! I actually love sublime text 3 than any other IDE's because of the simplicity. Especially the tab shortcut for html tags.

[Ali Abbas]

Exactly. I too use it when designing HTML, CSS and JS Static Web Pages.

[Brandon Conway]

This is available in pretty much every editor. It is called Emmet. Emmet can do a lot more than just expand simple tags, you should watch a few videos about it and you will like it even more than you do now!

[Adam]

Vscode has Emmett baked in. Sometimes you have to declare it for some languages like Vue but out of the box, html/css works great

[Thomas C. Haflich]

I've used ST2, ST3, and Atom (among others), and I can say that it's really down to which defaults you like better and if you need some random feature or package that isn't in one of them.

Also, how much you're willing to put up with nagware. ST2/3 is either a significant investment or periodically pulls a winrar. Atom is roughly the same product for nothing.

I know a bunch of developers who use Notepad++ for everything. Oh, and the one guy who used Dvorak layout and coded in Vim. (I think as a team of developers grows, the odds of having one of those guys approaches one.)

It is an interesting assumption that everyone is in two very specific editors.

[Ben Sinclair]

It's not "how much you're willing to put up with nagware", it's "whether you're prepared to breach the license agreement and use the software illegally".

[Ali Abbas]

I agree. Sublime text is light and doesn't consumes RAM that much as compared to VS Code.

[Saurabh Sharma]

vs code is nice but sublime text is king when it comes to performance.

[Brian Hanna]

I need some IDE style features out of the box and Sublime Text 3 didn't really cut it for me. It's my go to for editing a one-off file, but VSCode is a nice middle ground between a full blown IDE and a text editor. Atom is just too slow for me.

Also, unless they've improved their sidebar APIs significantly in the last year, there isn't a plugin for everything I want ST3 to do, unfortunately.

It's super performant and flexible and a great choice for a lot of workflows, but I've found VSCode works better for mine

[Ben Sinclair]

It's closed-source, proprietary-licensed, relatively-expensive, and not an IDE.

[Rishi Kumar Chawda]

For me, It is because it is not free and VSCode is and it has been developed well for web developers - though I would still prefer sublime if I had the money, and will switch to it later probably. But for now, I get a lot of similar set of features in VSCode so yeah kinda gets the job for me.

[Florian Rand]

Stack overflow survey, tools: insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/...

[najmi]

I'm used to sublime. I tried code and atom. But I'm just more comfortable with sublime more.

[TenshiDevelopment]

I think both are very usefull, but i think Atom is like a normal text editor with features while VS Code is more for developer, but i like to use Atom.

[Antonio Radovcic]

Both are from Microsoft 😬 and VS seems to be more popular, so that‘s where more plugins etc. will be written for. That makes it my choice. Also it has the best out-of-the-box config for front-end-web-development, so it’s a good choice for beginners, too. The Electron-part bothers me a bit, but almost all desktop-apps I use are web-based (except Safari) so I just don’t care anymore tbh

[Bala Hantsi 🇳🇬]

I prefer vscode simply because it's support computers with low specs, then it has large community and so many extensions to make a developer more productive

[NexoPOS Solutions]

Both belongs to Microsoft. #EndGane

[NexoPOS Solutions]

However I'll still be in favor of vscode. Because of all the feature it offer. It might be slow or memory consuming but it's depends on the extensions that you do install as well

[Eric Zingeler]

Sublime Text 3 was my first minimalist IDE. Atom and VS Code are evolutions of Sublime Text 3. VS Code is my daily driver for 2 reasons, it’s faster than Atom and more feature rich than ST3.

[NOGIER Loïc]

If you use VS Code, try VS Codium : vscodium.com/ is a Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.

[miniscruff]

I use neovim, it requires some configuring but I have everything I need that other editors offer. Mainly, I use it for the window controls and terminal integrations. Vim plugins for other editors are ok but have limitations.

[George]

Hello. May be do you share your favorite plugins for neovim?

[Florian Rand]

Hello there George! This may be of help (copy & paste from my init.vim):

Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'tpope/vim-surround'
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'bronson/vim-trailing-whitespace'
Plug 'Yggdroot/indentLine'
Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs'
Plug 'w0rp/ale'
Plug 'junegunn/limelight.vim'
Plug 'mhinz/vim-signify'
Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': './install --all' }
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'
" For async completion
Plug 'Shougo/deoplete.nvim', { 'do': ':UpdateRemotePlugins' }
" For Denite features
Plug 'Shougo/denite.nvim'

" Color scheme
Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' }
Plug 'flrnprz/plastic.vim', { 'as': 'plastic' }
Plug 'flrnprz/candid.vim', { 'as': 'candid' }
Plug 'joshdick/onedark.vim'

" go
"" Go Lang Bundle
Plug 'fatih/vim-go'
Plug 'tweekmonster/hl-goimport.vim'
Plug 'buoto/gotests-vim'

"" HTML / CSS / XML Bundle
Plug 'tpope/vim-haml', {'for': ['haml', 'sass', 'scss']}
Plug 'mattn/emmet-vim'
Plug 'alvan/vim-closetag'
Plug 'ap/vim-css-color'
Plug 'amadeus/vim-xml'

" javascript
"" Javascript Bundle
Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript', {'for': 'javascript'}
Plug 'othree/yajs.vim', {'for': 'javascript'}
"Plug 'posva/vim-vue', {'for': 'vue'}
Plug 'MaxMEllon/vim-jsx-pretty'

"Python
Plug 'vim-python/python-syntax', {'for': 'python'}

" typescript
"" Typescript support
Plug 'mhartington/nvim-typescript', {'do': './install.sh'}
Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim'

[Ali Abbas]

Great 👍🖖

[George]

Thanks.

[Florian Rand]

Also, this article explain some of them: medium.com/@huntie/10-essential-vi...

[miniscruff]

My nvim config is on GitHub.
github.com/miniscruff/dotfiles/blo...

[Igor Crnogorac]

Vs vode

[Sahil Langoo]

VS code AIO Editor .
Sublime Blazing Fast,promte after 20 saves.
Atom get sluggish with big projects.
Brackets only good for frontend
Notepad++ old school but not as fast as Sublime;

[Rafael Antonio Mejía Rosales]

I love Sublime Text for its simplicity and speed, I even paid for the license to support its development, but I have to recognize sometimes it falls short on features for more complex projects and for those I reach for PHPStorm. If I have to go for an IDE, I rather go with a full featured one than a half-assed like VSCode.

[Rob Blake]

I used and loved Atom for years. I was always nervous of using Microsoft software. I noticed that more and more respected developers were talking about using VS Code.

Then Microsoft bought GitHub. I decided that I might as well give VS Code a try. Now I really like it. It's not that much different to Atom IMHO but it's a good tool. I noticed that a lot of features that I liked in Atom have made their way into VS Code. Things like collaborative remote working for example.

[playaspec]

I'm a little more than disturbed that Microsoft bought Github, and shortly after Atom started pestering me to try VSCode. Actually I'm annoyed. It smacks of "embrace, extend, extinguish." It triggers my PTSD whought from decades of shabby Microsoft software not doing the right thing and stealing my time as a result. No thanks.

[Maxime]

I've tried all of them, and made a more detailed answer here stackoverflow.com/a/40842224/2398593

I'm also talking about angular is that answer but on the ide part I'd still use VSC no matter which JS/TS I'd work on :)