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I've always chosen Atom over VSCode because I don't want these features. Autocomplete even on really expensive IDEs runs way to slow, clever auto formatting and it's ilk tend to not work well for me at all, and I dislike the overbearing project management features in most IDEs.

I want a text editor that vaguely understands code with some simple file browsing and plug and play extensions. Atom trying to become VSCode isn't beneficial here at all.

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> Autocomplete even on really expensive IDEs runs way to slow..

Not true for jetbrains ones. Autocomplete speed is One of the reasons for me to go for their toolbox subscription

Even with a fully unlocked enterprise license on it, autocomplete was lagging far behind me on a high end macbook pro. Maybe I just type too fast or the libraries I use are poorly laid out, but it was not working.

Java.

I recently fired up WebStorm and found typing to be slower than atom for most files. I wouldn't open a large file in atom, sure, but it's been getting better in that regard and generally most of my code files are < 400 lines anyway.

And thanks to the way the extension system works in Atom you can keep your editor that way. These packages are entirely optional.

The only changes made to Atom at all to facilitate this were better built-in watching of files in Atom (benefits all packages and should improve things like the tree view when it switches over) and an async shutdown mechanism for packages.

>I want a text editor that vaguely understands code with some simple file browsing and plug and play extensions

This is my config of vscode. I disabled all autocomplete because it seemed shitty and non-functional to me (for example, I'm in an HTML file and type "<d," I see now "dialog," followed by "div." Figuring out how many times I need to press "tab" is a lot worse UX for me than just typing "<div>" every time). With all that autocomplete, pop-up dropdown menu BS disabled, it's nice and smooth.

They're just new packages (ide-*) that you can install. AFAICT nothing is included in Atom core.

Sublime Text?

Not as of 3.0 though I did enjoy 2.x quite a bit.

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