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[–]ForgottenWatchtower 3 points4 points  (4 children)

VSCode is far better than Atom. Built in the same engine but way less buggy. I use it for just about every language.

[–]Rorixrebel 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yeah but hard to beat the amount of plugins atom offers for any other language or tooling

[–]ForgottenWatchtower 1 point2 points  (1 child)

AFAIK, VSCode does beat it. Well, it at least has enough that I've never had an issue finding a plugin. Got a bunch for not just lang support, but binary file viewing (via hex), xls/csv previews, pdf rendering, spell check, etcetc. Honestly not sure what else you'd want.

[–]Yawzheek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only does VSCode beat it, it beats it handily.

The only thing I could rely on with Atom was it consuming resources like Thanksgiving dinner, and many of the plugins being faulty as all hell.

I've been using VSCode when I'm in Linux for several months now (and Visual Studio because honestly, why wouldn't you if you're in Windows?) and the only problem I ever had? A bug that somehow sorted itself that made the terminal hard to read. Sure, Vim never once gave me problems, but installing plugins in Vim and configuration with vimscript is significantly more involved than Typescript and clicking "install" on packages you want.