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Discussion on: Atom vs Visual Studio Code

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Sethu Senthil

I started out with Atom when I began coding, but now I use VS code. VS code is more developer oriented like the settings panel is in JSON! VS code also seems to be a tad bit faster, and that's what all the cool kids use!
(Mind F**k): VS code is made/managed by Microsoft, Atom is managed by Github. Github is bought by Microsoft ...

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Roger K. • Edited

I was using Atom before; probably about 2 years ago, but there wasa bug that they allowed in their software that Microsoft's team addressed and that bug was looking my battery, so I switched and never looked back. I understand that bug is fixed now, but I'm no longer motivated to switch likei was when I was new.

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Hunter Drum

Ha! I never realized that