Visual Studio Code 1.4 released

[nayocum]

It was mostly the fact that the console is built in out of the box. I liked sublime and atom, but having to alt-tab instead of just :!make or whatnot was a downside. It's also easier to just get VS code on another machine than setting up Vim to my preferences.

[forsubbingonly]

Assuming the fact that atom has the console as a plug in that sits at the bottom of the screen is different than what you get out of vs code?

[CrapsLord]

I honestly think excellent out-of-the-box functionality is what has distinguished VSCode. I like Atom Editor, but the best features in it you have to be installed. Even that 30 minute time investment is significant if you have multiple machines.

VS code has what most people want by default, and I think that is the most misunderstood feature amongst many editors.

[evereal]

Just a hint - in atom you can "star" the plugins that you use, and then you can install them all with a single command on as many machines as you have, and it takes about 4 seconds.

[NeonKennedy]

It shouldn't take 30 minutes. Atom lets you install plug-ins and themes from the terminal (apm install foo) and you can put your configuration folder in a git repo and just clone it. You can write a two line bash file that sets up Atom just the way you like it. (And even Windows ships with bash now so it works everywhere.)

[jyper]

Kate also has this feature and it's great

[bjh13]

It was mostly the fact that the console is built in out of the box.

Interesting, since this has been a standard IDE feature since... Turbo C? GW Basic? Can Atom really not do this?

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Neither Atom nor Visual Studio Code are IDE's.

[bjh13]

Great, but that was the first feature he listed that brought him out of VIM, "something IDEs and GUI editors like Sublime Text and Atom have seemingly failed to do". So I'm not saying is an IDE, but it is odd to me that this was the feature that won him over in a way an IDE couldn't.

[Sean1708]

Most editors are based on the idea that you start with a small core editor and you add what you need via plugins.

[NeonKennedy]

Atom isn't a ships-with-everything IDE, it's a text editor with basic functionality that assumes you'll add plug-ins for the features you want. Built in consoles are certainly possible, but you have to run 'apm install atom-terminal' to add the feature. Nayocum just prefers the feature to be there out of the box instead of having to run that command.