I'm torn between Sublime 3, Atom and VScode and no one can give me some proper pro's and cons. Not even me...

@h3ll I keep switching because in the end, they've all got (more or less) the same features/extensions and I just pick what I see first

What are you using it for?

@johnfoobar Webdev, mainly nodejs and php. I've already ruled out phpstorm tho

Atom is bae!

VSCode comes with a nice Node.js debugger. I believe it has some sort of linting built in by default too. I personally like atom with the material design theme it's pretty slick.

They all can be made to do the same thing. I personally use VSCode whenever I want to debug Node.js but I use atom otherwise.

Sublime and atom are almost identical. Sublime is faster, but I generally don't notice too much. Sublime has a material design theme too that looks nice.

I pick atom because the package manager is easy to deal with and because I like the idea that it's made with html and CSS, but I believe VSCode is too. VSCode is less customizable though.

It's all personal preference though you don't have to choose now just keep seeing which one you like.

Maybe the bottom line is that any of them will do the job - they are all very similar. Just pick one, settle on it and become familiar with it. Being forced to choose "the RIGHT one" is a pressure only you are applying.

There's definitely a lot of "grass is greener" between the three. I use Atom mainly, but I know that Sublime is much faster, and VSC has killer features (and is also faster xD)

Atom is slow but the packages are top shelf, 30-year distilled amazeness

@askerr it really depends on how large your files are and what plugins you get for how slow it is. I love ternJS for example but it slows everything in JS development on atom significantly.

@johnfoobar yeah personally I never hit the performance bumps that other people report. Most of the files I work with in my projects are < 120 lines and I never have more than 10 (if I'm lost in a sea of debugging) open at the same time

Memory and performance-wise I would always choose Sublime. It's memory footprint is a joke (a good one tho). Atom has some amazing packages, but I find it extremely slow (even having no plugins installed). I have a MacBook late 2015, 16gb memory, 512ssd and VSCode takes around 2 minutes to fully load on it, totally usless if you ask me, but then again: Microsoft.

I thought the correct answer is either vi or emacs depending on who your mentor was?