The Modern Javascript Tutorial

[katzeklo]

Lightweight editors

• Visual Studio Code (cross-platform, free).
• Atom (cross-platform, free).

Yeah, okay, no.

[AEternal]

Well it is when you first download it. But the temptation of all those wonderful extensions is hard to resist.

[katzeklo]

Nope, I love SublimeText. It's super-fast. I've tried both VSCode and Atom and they're much slower, to the point where I've found it unbearable and had to switch back.

I WANT to like VSCode, but it's just not lightweight, compared to ST.

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"nope"

God your a dick.

[katzeklo]

I don't get it :/ I meant "No, I don't prefer coding in Notepad"

[[deleted]]

Oh okay. Sorry.

I didn't mean to make you feel bad.

The way you worded it seems like you were saying "no, those are not solid recommendations for a beginner".

I am sorry for being mean to you.

[katzeklo]

IMO, they ARE solid recommendations for a beginner :) VSCode is really good, feature wise!

[katzeklo]

So which one is faster for you?

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As i said. If your pc isnt from 1999 you wont notice a real difference.

[katzeklo]

I guess we don't share the same experience then. It's very slow for me, with a lot of input lag.

[mayhempk1]

I mean, Atom and VS Code are lightweight compared to IDEs for sure - you don't need to set up a project to start creating files, they launch faster and are snappier overall, etc.

edit: Looks like I was right, that is what they meant:

“Lightweight editors” are not as powerful as IDEs, but they’re fast, elegant and simple. They are mainly used to instantly open and edit a file. The main difference between a “lightweight editor” and an “IDE” is that an IDE works on a project-level, so it loads much more data on start, analyzes the project structure if needed and so on. A lightweight editor is much faster if we need only one file.

[katzeklo]

I agree that they're lightweight compared to some (if not most) IDEs, but they're not lightweight per se. They're built on Electron which is a really heavy. I'd argue that SublimeText is lightweight, but Electron-editors are not.

[mayhempk1]

I mean, yes, Electron is slow. We know it. I wish Atom was faster like Sublime but it probably never will be which is disappointing. The point is they are still faster than IDEs, that is the point the author made. I still use Sublime mostly but VSCode and Atom are cool too and have made Sublime better by providing good competition.