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What would be some of the cool features that only exist on VSC that Sublime doesn't have?

shurcooL 10y ago
Out of the box (which matters - just because an extension exists, doesn't mean everyone who would benefit from it can find it, add it, configure it, etc.)? For one, nice git integration. You can see lines added/changed/removed in the gutter, unobtrusively. Sublime has a plugin that does something similar but it's not out of box and it's not as nice/polished. This is just one thing.
KiriGiri 10y ago
And some great features inherited from Visual Studio. Peek definition. when you want to peek a few lines of a method or type, you don't have to go away from the current position. In Sublime and Atom, it really bothers to open another tab. Navigation through overloaded methods. When a text editor is built to help people coding easily and make itself extended easily, it has to include some basic infrastructure so that extensions can focus on their specific implementations.VSC does this well, it is not only a text editor, but also have a skeleton of an IDE, and left all other things to extensions.
- sunnyps 10y ago
  The newer dev builds of Sublime Text introduced a way to render popups (that hover over text) using a subset of html (minihtml). It's already being used to show a list of references under the cursor as well as better build errors. I imagine there will be extensions taking advantage of this soon.
frik 10y ago
The cool telemetry phone home features that cannot be turned off in a reliable way (think updates). It's the feel good vibe that runs through all new MS apps and Win10. We should thank the third CEO for his great vision and be happy to give him all insight he needs. He is clearly steering his thriving platform to the next level.
- hrayr 10y ago
  Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Collecting data to improve the software is a great virtue, but not providing a reliably way to turn it off is definitely not cool.
- hurricaneSlider 10y ago
  Judging a specific part part of a behemoth company based on the controversial and by no means decidedly unethical actions of another are as annoying as using Micro$oft as a slur.
romanovcode 10y ago
Debugging
jwarren 10y ago
My main one is the top-notch TypeScript experience.
Touche 10y ago
it's actively developed.

Out of the box (which matters - just because an extension exists, doesn't mean everyone who would benefit from it can find it, add it, configure it, etc.)? For one, nice git integration. You can see lines added/changed/removed in the gutter, unobtrusively. Sublime has a plugin that does something similar but it's not out of box and it's not as nice/polished. This is just one thing.

KiriGiri 10y ago

And some great features inherited from Visual Studio. Peek definition. when you want to peek a few lines of a method or type, you don't have to go away from the current position. In Sublime and Atom, it really bothers to open another tab. Navigation through overloaded methods. When a text editor is built to help people coding easily and make itself extended easily, it has to include some basic infrastructure so that extensions can focus on their specific implementations.VSC does this well, it is not only a text editor, but also have a skeleton of an IDE, and left all other things to extensions.

sunnyps 10y ago
The newer dev builds of Sublime Text introduced a way to render popups (that hover over text) using a subset of html (minihtml). It's already being used to show a list of references under the cursor as well as better build errors. I imagine there will be extensions taking advantage of this soon.

frik 10y ago

The cool telemetry phone home features that cannot be turned off in a reliable way (think updates). It's the feel good vibe that runs through all new MS apps and Win10. We should thank the third CEO for his great vision and be happy to give him all insight he needs. He is clearly steering his thriving platform to the next level.

hrayr 10y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Collecting data to improve the software is a great virtue, but not providing a reliably way to turn it off is definitely not cool.
hurricaneSlider 10y ago
Judging a specific part part of a behemoth company based on the controversial and by no means decidedly unethical actions of another are as annoying as using Micro$oft as a slur.

romanovcode 10y ago

Debugging

jwarren 10y ago

My main one is the top-notch TypeScript experience.

Touche 10y ago

it's actively developed.