I'm usually in VS, where tabs are dominant, but I've used just about every editor under the sun and I've started to realize tabs are a pretty horrible UI. The f

I'm usually in VS, where tabs are dominant, but I've used just about every editor under the sun and I've started to realize tabs are a pretty horrible UI. The first time I was forced to think outside the tab was with XCode (it has them but they don't behave anywhere near the same). I despised it at first but eventually started preferring the "assistant editor" window and using tabs to separate areas of concern. I've used Vim a lot too and I used to keep trying to make it do the tab per file thing until I saw what XCode was going for and started using it more like that and have been much happier with it. In VS Code I think the working files list on the left is a far easier to read and navigate that tabs could ever be and Ctrl+Tab still works as expected. I'm hoping VS adopts some window layout ideas from VS Code and some other places too.