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How about “not using a bazooka to kill a mosquito”? There's no reason why a text editor needs a frigging browser engine as a core component.

• scotty79 9y ago
  Apparently there's a reason because VS Code (and Atom) is way more useful than any other editor built over last few decades.
  • syn_rst 9y ago
    And yet somehow neither of them can compare to text-mode editors built more than 30 years ago.
    • anonfunction 9y ago
      I like to use both, depending on what I'm working on. If I'm writing code then a vim / tmux combo can be great but if you're editing markdown or an html / css website having the live preview and same developer tools as the browser is really nice.
  • barkingcat 9y ago
    Unsure how to quantify this kind of hyperbole. Compared to SublimeText 2 which is outdated at this point, VS Code and Atom are only getting back to the standard of fast code editors from the last few years ... If you go back a few decades, you're competing against vi/vim and emacs, and there's no way you can say VS Code (and atom) can go against the "usefulness" or even productivity of either of those editors and their development environments.
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