I used atom for so long and at work we were kind of forced in a way to use vscode which opened my eyes that vscode really is better in terms of speed and auto formating etc, meaning you have plugins but it doesn't seem to add weight to it where atom just chugged. I have a 3 year old macbook pro, a spanking new macbook pro and a 2 year old mac pro. It was severely noticeable on the 3 year old one for sure and always noticeable although considerably less on the spanking new one.
I've been enjoying VS Code for a while after really trying to find a text-editor on Mac that fits my personal preferences (tab navigation, open new files in tabs in existing window, fast launch time, css syntax highlighting <i>inside</i> of an HTML file).<p>I've tried so many and like very few of them. MS seems to have done some good work on performance. It's still faster than this new version of Atom for startup, especially cold starts (with it not open at all, going into FTP client > open file).<p>Though, I revisited Sublime Text today, and I have to say, I know it's just a few seconds saved here and there, but the difference between Sublime and ANY other editor as far as launch/file ready time is a huge gap. While the measured time doesn't seem significant- the "feel" of using it does. It's hard to put into words how much better it feels to use, like the difference between using applications on a HDD vs an SSD.<p>I'm still debating (as a hobbyist that doesn't make much money on what I use text editors for) whether the license is worth it for Sublime or if I should just stick to VS Code. $80 is reasonable for most use cases (developers, etc) but it's a bit steep for mine. It really feels like it might be worth it, even just for the speed difference.
I was a loyal Atom user until I tried and fell in love with VS Code. Although there's a richer set of add-ons for Atom, some of the VS Code are of a much higher quality - especially the ones backed by Microsoft. Anyway, GitLens [0] is one of the non-Microsoft ones.<p>[0]: <a href="https://gitlens.amod.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlens.amod.io/</a>
I love Atom and use it as my default text editor. There are all these people talking about IDE wars in the comments. I feel like Atom is an enhanced text editor at best. But the comparisons to VSCode and then eventually IntelliJ...not even the same ballpark.
Tried VS Code several times, and failed to set it up correctly, so that I would be able to edit files over SSH and see a tree of files (without syncing, downloading entire projects, etc...). I just want to connect, browse to the needed file, double click on it, edit, save and close it. May be someone who has similar needs can point me to the right plugin/tutorial, I would try VS Code again?<p>But for now, using Atom as my primary editor, and was able to set it up the way I described above. Plugin which I use to edit files over SSH is Remote FTP (<a href="https://github.com/icetee/remote-ftp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/icetee/remote-ftp</a>), if someone is interested.
I like Atom because I can keep it a relatively dumb editor. I hate autocomplete, I hate automated code formatting usually (I do occasionally use Prettier to get legacy code cleaner) and I don't want to see my linter until I go to make a commit.<p>I do wish Atom was faster, especially on Windows. I do appreciate the support for ligatures in font though, and how easy it is to change editor behavior as I go.
There is no reason for Microsoft keeping two Electron-based code editor.<p>Would be nice to see how both communities from VSCode and Atom can work together and drive an even better coding experience with an unlimited extensions ecosystem.<p>Both Atom and VSCode are great!
I hope vscode copies the text search interface from atom - after using atom for awhile I switched to and love vscode but the more functional/information rich search result navigator is the buggest thing I miss from atom ...
Long time Emacs user here. I’m enjoying Atom more and more on each new release. It’s not slow anymore and the UI is really minimalistic and clean. Highly recommend it.
I'm surprised that no one asking this - but what's the future for Atom in VSCode in light that they are pretty much direct competitors AND developed by same company now. Any plans to merge teams / unify development? ( Or opposite, close one of the projects ? ) Competition was definitely beneficial to both of them, but is it common to have healthy "intra-company" competing products?
Since Microsoft has taken over, perhaps my take might hurt people's confidence in Github in light of that news...but they really should just kill off Atom and focus on VS Code. I'd rather they focus energy on building other tools.
How is Atom with a11y? I tried using VoiceOver with Atom but I couldn't quite get it to work. Is accessibility something the Atom team is committed to?