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Discussion on: Atom vs Visual Studio Code

 
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Sam Wight

I definitely recommend it. It took a while for me to get used to it, but the speed benefits, better key combos, better/more consistent design, better language support and tooling (Typescript type annotations are absolutely amazing), and better command pallet made it worth it for me.

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Joe Pea

Yeah, the TypeScript support in particular is what interests me the most (especially because I also want to get into AssemblyScript (TypeScript for WebAssembly)), but at the time I was comparing Atom and VSCode, the Vim support in Atom far outweighed the better TS support in VS Code for me. I will definitely have to swing back around to see how they compare nowadays. I'm hoping vim support in VS Code is as configurable and flexible in Atom (in Atom I can script the vim-mode-plus plugin with practically all the same features as native Vim, it's the first vim-emulation of any editor that I ever actually liked compared to native Vim).