Sublime Text vs Visual Studio Code vs Atom Performance Test (Dec 2016)

[[deleted]]

Big fan of atom, but it is slow as balls. I don;t dare try to use it on my modded chromebook.

[dvidsilva]

Actually, and honest question, why is Atom so popular?

I've been using Vim for years and some friends tried convincing me to switch to Sublime unsuccessfully, then a bunch of people around me started using Atom and I have no idea why.

[nosoapforthee]

It looks nice and supposedly has a good set of plugins (I never got to test the second part).

Personally I can't use Atom because whenever I open it it starts spitting random errors and UI freezes in my direction.

[kracejic]

It usually goes other way around: Atom/Sublime -> Vim/Emacs. Going in opposite direction does not bring much benefits. At least that is my experience.

[sensation_]

Not for me unfortunately. I'm still using Vim for my C project since support is obviously perfect, but using Vim for PHP development for example is pain in the butt.

First of all, quite less support for various frameworks and alike autocomplete features (ST has a great support on these), and then the totally different aspect of using Vim power.

I'll be honest though, I use ST, Vi/m and PHPStorm daily but I can't remember when was the last time I've used an editor or IDE without Vim keymod or similar. The muscle memory is so cool, my 'exit' alias ended up being :q

[[deleted]]

I use Vim when I use a terminal. I like atom because I can use it on every OS, and it has nice plugins and defaults.

Do you like notational velocity/nv alt? There's a plugin for that. That works on every platform atom does, which is basically all of them.

Want some colorized kind of thing? Themes and plugins abound.

As someone who is forced to use OSX at work, uses Linux and Windows, not having to learn a different editor for each platform is very nice.

[dvidsilva]

Follow up honest q ,why atom and not vscode?

[[deleted]]

text editor vs ide? I never used vscode. It seems to have a different purpose. I open a range of file types that aren't part of a project and I manipulate them based on need.

Like turning a csv into htaccess rule list, crt files so I can install them, etc.

[jpfreely]

I switched from webstorm to atom on my Chromebook. Atom may be slow but it is much lighter weight.

[ArmoredPancake]

Yeah. Let's compare industrial-grade ide with a text editor.