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atom is mostly a webdev tool and vscode is more of a lightweight ide-ish thing, id go with vsc
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Both work well although I found that Atom trends to be a bit more demanding on system resources than VS Code.
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jakobev24027yAtom with packages for node, react, preview etc..
Or maybe try codepen.io if you didn't know yet -
Ederbit7387yVSCode. 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!
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VS Code is love, VS Code is life. โค๏ธ
Lots of cool features, easy to use.
Settings, environments and shortcuts are easily configurable.
It has a dark theme. ๐ -
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? -
stereo12167yAll 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.
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renlok137yI 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
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mundo0349797yAtom.
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 configureโ my builds. I love coding but I fucking hate configuration. -
xnor15627yVS 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. -
th3113397yI almost feel ashamed to admit it but I started learning lisp recently and I actually quite like emacs now...
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cuervo14247yTry both and see which one is more your flavor. I personally use VS Code, but I have tried other text editors choosing
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coolq48267yVS Code, put a theme on, and it looks spectacular ๐
Atom is good too, but too much emphasis on web development for what I do. -
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!!
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@wiredgecko I heard about atom being memory hog...but about Visual Code.. never heard..
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C0D4681457yI 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 ๐
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.
Atom or Visual Studio code?
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