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Atom still has a richer plugin ecosystem.

Etheryte 9y ago
As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?
- marcoms 9y ago
  UI themes, and a much more cohesive default theme
  - juandazapata 9y ago
    A theme is your main reason to pick an editor? Wow
    - negativ0 9y ago
      dont know why you have been downvoted but, yeah if you are choosing your editor for a theme i can only LOL
  - ArlenBales 9y ago
    Which theme? vscode has hundreds of themes, and most of them ported from sublime text or other editors. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&category=Themes&sortBy=Downloads https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...
  - nikon 9y ago
    This is the best theme on VS Code I've found so far. Lovely. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.theme-onedark https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.t...
    - petre 9y ago
      This is the default Atom theme.
  - SippinLean 9y ago
    VS Code has full UI theming now. I've personally never used a default theme on any editor.
- davidy123 9y ago
  I switched from Atom to VSCode a while ago, but I still miss a very good git extension (which I can't find now, sorry) which put timeline marks by change size in the bottom of the editor window to allow easily viewing diffs. The best regex railroad viewer extension I found was also much better than in VSCode. As well, VSCode seems to have some bad UI paradigms, for example, using Prettier, syntax fails pile up obnoxiously. I suspect all these differences are because Atom had better UI access for extension developers. I'd switch back to Atom but I found it had a few glitches and VSCode has stronger features such as debugging and code comprehension built in.
ArlenBales 9y ago
I don't see any Mercurial plugins nearly as full featured as the one for vscode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mrcrowl.hg https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mrcrowl.... Also, does Atom show you repo changes in the scrollbar, or have a plugin for this? When I tried Atom awhile back it didn't have this, and vscode has it built-in. As far as richness, I've found a matching plugin in vscode for every plugin I used in sublime text (about 10 plugins).
quantummkv 9y ago
Except when you need a debugger. VS Code has an built-in debugger with maintained plugins for major languages. Atom has nothing in this regard.

As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?

marcoms 9y ago
UI themes, and a much more cohesive default theme
- juandazapata 9y ago
  A theme is your main reason to pick an editor? Wow
  - negativ0 9y ago
    dont know why you have been downvoted but, yeah if you are choosing your editor for a theme i can only LOL
- ArlenBales 9y ago
  Which theme? vscode has hundreds of themes, and most of them ported from sublime text or other editors. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&category=Themes&sortBy=Downloads https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...
- nikon 9y ago
  This is the best theme on VS Code I've found so far. Lovely. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.theme-onedark https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.t...
  - petre 9y ago
    This is the default Atom theme.
- SippinLean 9y ago
  VS Code has full UI theming now. I've personally never used a default theme on any editor.
davidy123 9y ago
I switched from Atom to VSCode a while ago, but I still miss a very good git extension (which I can't find now, sorry) which put timeline marks by change size in the bottom of the editor window to allow easily viewing diffs. The best regex railroad viewer extension I found was also much better than in VSCode. As well, VSCode seems to have some bad UI paradigms, for example, using Prettier, syntax fails pile up obnoxiously. I suspect all these differences are because Atom had better UI access for extension developers. I'd switch back to Atom but I found it had a few glitches and VSCode has stronger features such as debugging and code comprehension built in.

ArlenBales 9y ago

I don't see any Mercurial plugins nearly as full featured as the one for vscode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mrcrowl.hg https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mrcrowl.... Also, does Atom show you repo changes in the scrollbar, or have a plugin for this? When I tried Atom awhile back it didn't have this, and vscode has it built-in. As far as richness, I've found a matching plugin in vscode for every plugin I used in sublime text (about 10 plugins).

quantummkv 9y ago

Except when you need a debugger. VS Code has an built-in debugger with maintained plugins for major languages. Atom has nothing in this regard.