Atom vs VSCode
Discussions comparing the Atom text editor to Visual Studio Code and other alternatives like Sublime Text, focusing on performance issues, speed, bugs, and reasons to prefer one over the other.
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What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
What does Atom offer over alternatives, in particular Visual Studio Code?
I tried to like Atom two or three times, but it was simply too slow and too buggy. Visual Studio Code is much faster and I haven't encountered severe bugs so far.
Have you tried VS Code? It's very snappy in my experience, much better than atom.
Why do you prefer Atom over Sublime Text (except when you need to open a big file)?
Code is definitely not Atom. You should give it a try. It's free.
it starts with the speed, atom is clunky and slow. If I do not have any other alternative them Atom is good enough, but geany and vscode are way way better than atom. I'd rather do all fancy plugin stuff of atom using python and use geany than use Atom because of its slow speed. I wonder why anyone isn't doing anything for that considering github is the company being atom and that vscode and atom both are based on electron yet vscode is so damn faster than atom
Is there at least one thing that Atom is better at, than VSCode?
Atom is also good, but VSCode is too good.
Atom is pretty terrible, but you have options. VSCode is also based on the web stack and is very fast (though Sublime is even faster).