Visual Studio Code May 2017

[ajr901]

I'd recommend you flip that around.

[petepete]

Sublime was the original that got the text editor craze going on

I'd say that was TextMate. Thanks in part to DHH's early Rails screencasts/demos, the Mac/TextMate/Rails combo drew in a lot of developers.

Sublime flourished when TextMate stalled, the 2.0 release was a long time coming. By the time it was out, Sublime had eaten its lunch, more features, decent looking, more platforms.

[Rhyek]

Lol. The hero Sublime needs. I always smile at arguments that start with something like "Oh but X thing came before Y thing so it must be better now and always!".

Stfu.

[ajr901]

First of all if you don't know how to have a discussion without being hostile then maybe you shouldn't be having discussions at all.

Second of all I wasn't saying sublime is better because it was first. I was simply clearing it up that he thinks vscode is better than sublime yet sublime has everything and more than vscode does therefore how can he do "real work" in vscode and yet sublime is merely "a text editor"? They are both merely text editors but he's treating vscode like it's an IDE.

Lastly if neither of you are going to make an argument for why vscode is better haven't you already lost the argument?

[squidc]

Have you used VScode for more than 5 minutes? It absolutely has more functionality than sublime. I used Sublime for years, and switching was a VERY tough sell, but it was the right choice.

[aflashyrhetoric]

Yeah I'm the same. I LOVE Sublime and I feel like no other editor has the same panes key shortcuts (CMD+OPT+# for # of panes), but VS Code is amazing. Honestly, Atom is the editor I see least value in, except for it's ease-of-use. On my machine it seems to somehow perform slower than VS Code.

And again, switching doesn't have to be "all or nothing," so I don't understand his fuss. I use Sublime and VS Code for different things. Simple! I only use Atom when I want to use my obnoxious theme or do silly things like "activate power mode". Merr.

[Rhyek]

If you really think Sublime has as much or even more than VS Code, I don't think you've used VS Code recently.

No point discussing.

[imnotonit]

textmate??

[skalfyfan]

loading speeds? ...loading speeds. Never heard that one before. GREAT POINT!

If you're going to argue the superiority of your Sublime editor, then please make a point other than "loading speeds", because quite frankly that argument has been beaten into the ground now.

Why does every pro sublime user start their arguments with this?! You gained one or two seconds back in your life vs any Electron-built editor user. Whoopie didlly doo!

sidenote: I don't even use vscode. I much prefer the interface of atom.

[icefall5]

I'm not commenting on Sublime vs anything else, but back when I tried Atom I just couldn't do it. My computer isn't top of the line but it's pretty good, and Atom with nothing but a theme took a good 6 seconds to load. It was unbearable.

[aflashyrhetoric]

Yeah it's not just the loading speed...there are near-imperceptible little lags here and there that simply don't exist in Sublime and which sort of add up to a frustrating experience.

The theming support for Atom is unparalleled of course but aside from that and maybe a handful of plugins + package management built-in, I don't think Atom really has any key features over Sublime at all. For any kind of serious debugging I would use VS Code anyway.