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I don't know, every time I see a new release of Atom or VS code and people praising it in comments I go ahead and download it and open the project that I am cur

by usaphp 10y ago

I don't know, every time I see a new release of Atom or VS code and people praising it in comments I go ahead and download it and open the project that I am currently working on in Sublime for side by side comparison. And what strikes me most is how smooth Sublime is compared to Visual Studio Code or Atom (at least on my mac, I dont know about windows experience). Scrolling is much slower in VSC and searching through files is much much worse than in Sublime. Those little things are what makes an editor a winner, it just does not slow you down and annoy you. So once again Visual Studio Code failed to lure me away from Sublime, I dont even know why I am still trying to...I love Sublime Text.

rtpg 10y ago
Here's a good test: Do you want a text editor, or do you want something that's close to an IDE? Atom/VS Code exist to be IDE-y, not as thought experiments on text editors in the browser. Their advantages are in the ease of developing extensions and tools that aren't part of the core package. The difference is similar to Vim/Emacs. Of course Vim has some IDE-y plugins, but they're rarely as rich as what ends up getting built in Emacs.
- usaphp 10y ago
  Choppy scrolling is a high price to pay for an IDE in my opinion.
  - joaomoreno 10y ago
    Do you mind filling an issue on GitHub about the choppy scrolling? It should definitely not be choppy.
  - reinhardt1053 10y ago
    It's definitely not choppy on my machine. There must be something wrong with your configuration. I would suggest to submit an issue on GitHub.
rplnt 10y ago
VS Code, at least on Windows, doesn't have smooth scrolling enabled. Is that what you mean by choppy? It's definitely bad UX, lines just jumping around. I haven't found a way to enable it (very quick google told me nothing either).
taude 10y ago
I'm on a 2014 MacBook Air and I open files with !5K lines long and it's smooth to scroll. My only knock would be a slow startup time, but I open my project in VSCode and leave it open for weeks at a time...

by usaphp 10y ago

rtpg 10y ago

Here's a good test: Do you want a text editor, or do you want something that's close to an IDE? Atom/VS Code exist to be IDE-y, not as thought experiments on text editors in the browser. Their advantages are in the ease of developing extensions and tools that aren't part of the core package. The difference is similar to Vim/Emacs. Of course Vim has some IDE-y plugins, but they're rarely as rich as what ends up getting built in Emacs.

usaphp 10y ago
Choppy scrolling is a high price to pay for an IDE in my opinion.
- joaomoreno 10y ago
  Do you mind filling an issue on GitHub about the choppy scrolling? It should definitely not be choppy.
- reinhardt1053 10y ago
  It's definitely not choppy on my machine. There must be something wrong with your configuration. I would suggest to submit an issue on GitHub.

rplnt 10y ago

VS Code, at least on Windows, doesn't have smooth scrolling enabled. Is that what you mean by choppy? It's definitely bad UX, lines just jumping around. I haven't found a way to enable it (very quick google told me nothing either).

taude 10y ago

I'm on a 2014 MacBook Air and I open files with !5K lines long and it's smooth to scroll. My only knock would be a slow startup time, but I open my project in VSCode and leave it open for weeks at a time...