Farewell friend, you will be missed.
That's my experience exactly. I still haven't been able to configure VS Code to fully match the experience I want with respect to keybindings and subtle look-and-feel and functionality details.
Aside from the infrequent case of hanging when opening very large files I had no real issues with Atom and could have happily kept using it.
For what it's worth Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) appears to be a community-maintained fork of Atom. (For that matter one of the primary Atom creators is working on https://zed.dev/.) But personally I got tired of swimming upstream and just caved to VS Code.
(I am a little tempted to go back to emacs, which was my editor of choice before Atom, but that's ends up being an enormous time-sink for me anyway.)
- The right side bar is "dynamic". Most of the time it's the Explorer showing the directories and files, but when I try to search for something, though, it becomes the Search sidebar. Same for all the potential sidebars (Source Control, Run and Debug, etc.)
- Everything is a plugin. That means I need to carefully check who's the author of the plugin, probably check as well the source code to avoid using malware, etc.
- Everything is a plugin. That means I need to craft a set of plugins in order to work in certain projects. I prefer JetBrain's approach
- No floating windows. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I prefer that, for instance, Settings to be opened in its own window, instead of opening a new tab in my editor. Also all the Settings in VSCode are on the same "page" (sure, whenever you scroll, the left-side grouping of Settings is updated accordingly, but imho it's difficult for me to focus on the section I need to work on)
Yeah it's just a tabbed view. I like it, saves space while staying useful. Maybe because most software I use has tabs already.
- Everything is a plugin. That means I need to carefully check who's the author of the plugin, probably check as well the source code to avoid using malware, etc.
True, but most popular languages have plugins authored by Microsoft. Some are from Red Hat. You'll miss out on GitLens and LaTeX Workshop, but VSCode with only trusted plugins is more than good enough.
> - Everything is a plugin. That means I need to craft a set of plugins in order to work in certain projects. I prefer JetBrain's approach
For Python, web dev, C++, etc., there's a "plugin pack" that depends on what you need to work.
> No floating windows. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I prefer that, for instance, Settings to be opened in its own window, instead of opening a new tab in my editor. Also all the Settings in VSCode are on the same "page" (sure, whenever you scroll, the left-side grouping of Settings is updated accordingly, but imho it's difficult for me to focus on the section I need to work on)
Sounds like you just don't like tabs? I find that the window list gets way too crowded and messy when I'm working on multiple projects with multiple tools. Tabs (in browser, explorer and editors) are a lifesaver.
I've gotten used to Visual Studio, where I can grab a tab and pull it out of the window to make it its own window. If you try that in VSCode, it'll just drop the file on the Desktop.
To get something similar in VSCode, I have to open a new window, drag the file over, then close it in the original window.