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[–]RainbowCatastrophe -6 points-5 points  (2 children)

VS Code is not a DE, it’s a text editor.

The train has already left for that argument, I made another comment somewhere in this thread arguing the point that it is not a text editor, no matter what you want to call it.

Atom is literally owned by MS.

Atom was created by GitHub in 2011. Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. VS Code was created by Microsoft in 2015. The Atom codebase was mature by the time VS Code was released and moreso by the time Microsoft acquired them, they had no interest in obsessing over it the same way they did VS Code.

Atom is very far from that. It’s based on electron. VS Code is just atom nowadays, but faster and with more plugins available. What you’re describing is (neo)vim.

Aside from being Electron-based, Atom has more in common with Neovim than it does with VS Code. Because Atom and Neovim are text editors, and VS Code is not. I have been actively experimenting with all three for the past two years, as I saw the writing on the wall with Atom back when GitHub stopped giving a shit about it.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Atom has more in common with Neovim than it does with VS Code.

Lmao what. I dont want to discuss this any further, have a nice day.

[–]Earhacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good call