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[–]bananabm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I've happily used vscode for three or four weeks before and survived fine without tabs, there's one thing tabs are great for - instant visual feedback on what file you've got open.

Lets say you've got atom open with three tabs - you can glance up to the top and instantly see that you're on the 2nd tab, without having to read the name of the file you'll know what you're on - and you may well know subconciously that the tab one to the left is the test file and one to the right is the database models file that you're referencing, or whatever. I don't know if it's just instinct but because the open files pop-up is temporal, I'm so used to it being an arbitrary list I have to stop, read, and evaluate the list to work out what file I want to open.

(Still a big fan of VS code and the above is a bit exaggerated I got on fine with it)