I was at a web development competition in Helsinki when representative of Microsoft comes by my desk and suddenly says:
"I see, you are using Visual Studio Code. How it is?"
"It's great.", I answer.
"YES! Finally, we have done something right."

The point being that even Microsoft's own employees know how carbage their products can be. *Cough* *Caugh* Windows.

The amazing thing to me about VS Code is that M$ haters mostly admit it's good, M$ supporters mostly admit they're surprised.

@norman70688 easily extensible, good intellisense, pretty, and less of a resource hog than atom. Free and open source helps too

the ease of use and that's something which is realy hard to describe when it's good, which is awesome.

@console At no point has Atom ever started up faster then VS code (for me anyway) sometimes it is ok.

I also noticed it is using about 5-6x the amount of memory compared to VS code.

I only have a few packages on Atom as I disabled those and it really made no noticable difference to start up or memory usage. Maybe uninstalling the packages might make a different but I don't want to bother with that.

In saying that, I mainly use VS code but I switch it up to atom every now and then because I like it as well.

@amahlaka Yeah, it was Taitaja 2017. Sadly I cannot remember you. Those 3 days went super fast.

@juniordev Those two "text editors" are copys of each other. I started with Atom but then I hit a wall, an extension wall. I think theres more and better extensions for VSCode. So I switched because its the same excact program but with more extensions and features build-in. And ofcourse Intellisense was a big word.

How is it compared to webstorm?

<@boom>
Not an IDE?

What do you mean? How is atom or vs not an ide? Atom comes naked so you got to pump it with extensions while webstorm is kinda plug and play. Both got similar features @Skayo

@boom They are all IDEs. Some are Integrated Development Environments and some are Integratable Development Environments aka. hackable text editors.

@console I have no damn idea how it is lighter for you. I've been testing it since it first came out, so I'll get rid of all extensions when I text the start up speed, on an SSD, and it's still much slower than vscode full of extensions. Unless it's changed in the last 2 months, I'm inclined to say that's still true. What OS? That might be the difference.

Exactly what i meant.. @joas

Has it changed in the past half year? If not, I'll just keep using Netbeans. I personally didn't like the interface and. The fact that it was slower than netbeans for me :/

@linuxxx
I think it hasn't changed even to this day 😁