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I was surprised at how popular VS Code was in comparison to Atom: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-m...

Is it really that much better than Atom? I quite like Atom, but I started to use VS Code for Flutter development.

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IMO, VS Code is everything Atom should have been and/or is trying to be.

It’s the first editor I’ve used since the original TextMate that worked well straight out of the box, is easily configurable for 95% of customization needs, and has high-quality extensions that don’t feel like they’re all conflicting with one-another.

I don’t know if Atom has gotten any better in the past year, but it never quite felt right to me. Lack of polish and care, I guess. VS Code had me a convert from day one.

Too many people in here running PR for Microsoft. VS Code is just as terrible, if not worse, than Atom.. and built using the same bloated framework.

I haven't had that experience - I've found VS Code to be much smoother than Atom, but obviously that may vary by platform and the particular set of plugins any one user has.

I have tried to use VS Code a number of times but never found a reason to switch like I did with Atom from Sublime Text. Everyone always cites speed or whatever but I don't notice any slowness in Atom (especially these newer releases.) But now that the perception is there it's pretty much harped on.

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