Atom or Visual Studio code?

@Alice Thanks.. but can I know why?

I like brackets.

@ewpratten brackets in Atom or in Visual Studio Code

VS Code ❤️

atom is mostly a webdev tool and vscode is more of a lightweight ide-ish thing, id go with vsc

@sekharprudhivi brackets.io

Both work well although I found that Atom trends to be a bit more demanding on system resources than VS Code.

Vim

Atom with packages for node, react, preview etc..

Or maybe try codepen.io if you didn't know yet

Sublime

VSCode. I tried both once and ended up with VSCode. Theres regular updates and alot of features in a lightweight package. You can use NPM Packages as well. Just my preference!

I prefer Atom actually. But I can't explain why. It's subjective I guess

i like VSC

VS Code is love, VS Code is life. ❤️

Lots of cool features, easy to use.
Settings, environments and shortcuts are easily configurable.

It has a dark theme. 😉

Atom is better looking/customization, while VS Code is way less demanding and can consequently handle bigger files

My personal choice: Atom

I switched atom to vs code. Before i switched from brackets to atom...

They're both free and light so why dont you test them for a couple of weeks and decide for yourself?

VSCode is a lot more lightweight and in my experience... Better. More streamlined

@searchindex I second that

Vim

All I would ever use was Sublime but after trying VS Code, I can't switch to anything else at the moment. It just works and most important it's super clean.

I really wanted to like atom it has pretty much every feature you could need either built in or as a package. But it's so slow and crashes constantly even more so if you ever plan on working with big files

Atom.
Has the stuff I need now, is fast and does not crash.

I used VScode before and it failed to do something I needed.. but I cant remember what.

i used brackets, then atom, then vscode and now atom again.

All of them work and are usable, I believe we use what we use out of some nonsensical shit. #preferences #subjectiveness #choice

I'm going to go against the grain and say neither.

Want a lightweight full featured text editor? Notepad++, Vim, nano, etc. Need a full IDE? Visual Studio Community Edition (or pro or etc), IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc.

I like Vs code and Atom when I'm doing purely web dev work, but anything else and it's underwhelming.

When I'm working I don't want to have to script, code and configure​ my builds. I love coding but I fucking hate configuration.

Vim

I have really grown to love VS Code.

I see there's plenty of buzz on VS Code even here. I have got to try this

Sublime

VS code! Better UI, good customisation, good extension support, in built terminals(CMD, powershell, bash...)!!
For my requirement: VS code is the only one that can handle SSH file systems without crashing the moment you save a file.

Wow.. so both are good in their own terms.. will try both and check...

I almost feel ashamed to admit it but I started learning lisp recently and I actually quite like emacs now...

@Fydrenak And I started learning python...

@sekharprudhivi Whoa let's not get too crazy with it.

@Fydrenak ya

Try both and see which one is more your flavor. I personally use VS Code, but I have tried other text editors choosing

Ok.. will try sublime too and check. Thanks for suggesting me..😀

VS Code, put a theme on, and it looks spectacular 😎

Atom is good too, but too much emphasis on web development for what I do.

@coolq k.. will try..

@sekharprudhivi
Awesome 👍

Speaking of VS Code being so lightweight, it's suddenly become a complete memory hog. I've had to kill off helper processes on my Mac that we're running up to 2GB each!!

VSCode ❤️

@AlexDeLarge thanks! I try to keep it interesting.

@wiredgecko I heard about atom being memory hog...but about Visual Code.. never heard..

I use Atom, although it’s sluggish it has great package community, and doesn’t feel over bloated as you can install the parts you want to make it do what you need, plus if you have CoffeeScript knowledge it’s not overly difficult to build your own plugins.

VS code felt like it had way to much pre-installed and cramped to work with but it is faster to load up especially when you don’t have the new atom-ide packages installed 😂

Other then that, both do basically the same thing, take a keyboard press and convert it to a text character.

@rc5-asdf It seems to happen when I'm running a Gulp watch task although in iTerm. I'll try figure out which process is causing this next time it happens.

This only started recently.

@rc5-asdf very possible. I'm trying to switch to npm scripts for my build tasks.