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Our shop has 4 devs, one on VSCode, unlikely to convert, three on Atom. I was the last covert to Atom here - after 15+ years on jEdit.

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For a second there, I thought I finally found the other person on the internet who was a jEdit zealot. But then I realized it's the same person I've known for years ;)

What makes you stick to Atom? I switched to VSCode due to Atom's terrible performance when opening huge files.

:) I don't open huge files, finally found a good SFTP plugin, php-debug hooks with xdebug.

Really it took me many months of tweaking to get Atom to be a daily driver - I don't want to do it again soon

I used Atom for a couple years and raved about it's features and package management but when it came to using it as an IDE, it fell short for one reason. It doesn't have a configurable way to debug across all languages. For example, try debugging python vs node. Python works well but node doesn't afaik.

OTOH vscode does have a way to do this using a `launch.json` file which is flexible enough to add custom debugging profiles for a single project and it can be stored directly in version control. I tried the editor out because of this one feature alone in order to debug node and haven't looked back.

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