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Comment by taylorlapeyre | Hacker News Reader

Prediction: If VS Code is the general do-it-all editor, Atom will become the GitHub editor. Atom is quickly ramping up feature integration with GitHub — seen here with integrating review comments inline with the code and the deep GitHub PR integration in general.

GitHub and Atom have a very linked future, with GitHub planning to become more involved with the actual code-writing process. Atom will be the conduit though which they achieve that.

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VS Code has had excellent git integration for a long time, as well as GitHub-specific integrations through an extension.

Atom may have started the move towards lightweight (relatively) IDEs, but VS Code is undoubtedly the more popular one. Honestly, when I saw this post on HN I was quite surprised to see that Atom is still actively developed - if there's anyone reading this that prefers Atom over VS Code, I'd really like to find out why?

VS Code, like Python, seems to be the second best tool on everything: it looks good but not as much as Atom, it's fast but not like Sublime or Vim, it's a lightweight IDE but not a full IDE.

I agree except for TypeScript and JavaScript - vscode is the best code editor I've experienced for both.

Any thoughts on which is more friendly for (complex) plugin writing?

I've been wanting to add multi-cursor modal focused features to an editor for a while and I've been debating which editor would be the best one to write for. Thoughts?

> VS Code has had excellent git integration for a long time

I don't agree. Last time I've checked vscode fails un some rather basic requirements, as for example vscode's file renaming functionality is entirely oblivious to Git which causes unnecessary problems to the user.

I think you forgot who owns GitHub.

fyi, the GitHub PR extension[1] for VS Code has review comments in the editor.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemdetails?itemName=Gi...

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