Hacker News Reader

Comment by tracker1 | Hacker News Reader

Just tried VS Code, because I was curious... It seems to be using around 230MB of ram, and almost no CPU with a single file open... I was surprised how much better it worked compared to some of the other browser/nwjs/electron based editors. It's become my daily driver.

View on HN

I am watching VS Code too. At the moment, Code's eco-system of add-on packages is missing too many tools I would want on a daily basis. However, I like the strong progress and road map, I could see Code being my go-to editor in the next year.

Actually, it has been a few months since I last checked on VS Code, I guess I should give it a spin again.

Just curious, what kinds of tools are essential for you to switch?

I use many of the features of Anaconda Python IDE. I know that better Python integration is high on the list priorities for VS Code, so I think this may happened.

http://damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/#

I tested out VS Code, seemed nice enough. Hopefully it'll get the tight integration with Git that Atom has. I have a love / hate relationship with Atom right now.

VS Code has much better git integration than Atom will ever have out of the box because Atom does not want to compete with GitHub for Desktop.

If true it's somewhat disheartening to see that newer companies are still carrying on the tradition of limiting a product (not that Atom is a "product" per se) in favor of promoting another one. I think there's a name coined for it but I can't recall it at the moment.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com