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Derek Nuzum
@dnuzum · Product Manager | Web Developer
I really want to like VS Code, but it's nowhere near Sublime. The extensions are really raw still as well and not on par with Atom at this point. But, it is much quicker than Atom which has led to me testing it out a little bit more. It's just so difficult to do anything outside of sublime and work effectively. If there was a more efficient way to port sublime plugins over to VSC, I'd be all over it because I really like it on a base level... Here's to hoping.
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Fraser Smith
@frassmith · Software Developer, Shanghai, China
@dnuzum VS Code hit v1.0 this week. It's brand new. What version is Sublime on? I agree with what you say about Atom, but Atom is completely dead for me and it seems will remain so until I uninstall and reinstall. As a working programmer, that isn't acceptable. Also, because Atom is based on the Chrome backend, it is just as memory hungry as Chrome. It's a nice editor, when it works, but it comes with the bloat built in. It doesn't surprise me that VS Code out performs Atom.
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Derek Nuzum
@dnuzum · Product Manager | Web Developer
@frassmith Sublime is on v3 with development already being done on v4 with continued development on v3 now that they've brought Will Bond onto the team (creator of Package Control). VS Code isn't as fast or robust as Sublime with the community package support that Sublime has. Also, Code has crashed a few times on me with larger files. Of course Atom has as well. Sublime is the only one that has continued to outperform anything else that I've used.
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Seb Jachec
@iamsebj · Studying, coding, designing, gaming.
@dnuzum This sums it up pretty well. I think Microsoft have done commendable work, but there's still a way to go. VS Code feels noticeably slower than Sublime for me, and seems to lack incredibly basic features (like tabs, which was the first thing I noticed). Another small thing: 130mb vs 27mb for Sublime!
Nice to see there's a UserVoice site to vote on features though.
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Fraser Smith
@frassmith · Software Developer, Shanghai, China
@iamsebj @dnuzum Seb, I agree, tabs would be nice, however, the files that you are currently editing, are shown in a separate section of the sidebar. Those are essentially your tabs, albeit in a vertical format instead of horizontal like Sublime, Atom etc. I've grown to like the layout because, if you're going to have a sidebar open anyway, you can save some screen real-estate for the editor windows by integrating your 'tabs' with the sidebar. Ultimately, it's just a personal preference. I have two personal gripes with VS Code; One, I don't particularly like the overly bright status bar colour scheme and; Two, it looks as if code folding is based on indentation levels and not the actual code syntax (this is an Atom failing too).
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Nathaniel Blackburn
@itsnblackburn · UI Engineer
@dnuzum @frassmith It always will because it's a native application.
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