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What does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based a

What does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based alternatives.

Thaxll 7y ago
Sublime is nowhere in terms of add-ons / language integration compare to VScode, without that it's pretty much useless. Sublime is just a better looking Notepad++
- angott 7y ago
  In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on extensive IDE support.
- rubbingalcohol 7y ago
  Oh sure it's useless. I only use it for all my work, but okay. Nice opinion.
hdra 7y ago
The out-of-box "IDE" features it provides (esp. for working with JS/TS projects) is amazing. I still struggle to reproduce that experience with various plugins on Sublime. Thats pretty much it for me. Everyone keeps saying that the performance issue is a myth, but I still experience a very noticeable lag with VSCode, and that keeps me from using it as my main editor.
- ehsankia 7y ago
  Sometimes, less is more. I completely agree that if you do need IDE-like features, then Sublime is most likely not for you, and any plugin trying to replicate those features falls pretty flat. But if you're doing simple file editing, I much prefer Sublime Text as it's faster and the UI much cleaner, not bloated with hundreds of buttons and options and huge context menus for things I'll never need. A lot of IDEs have silly limitations about creating projects or files. I like being able to open a blank scratch file on Sublime, set the syntax mode if I need to, and start editing text right away. The half a second to open is also amazing.
drcongo 7y ago
I've tried them, you're not missing anything unless you like typing lag, appalling scrolling performance, syntax highlighting that happens several seconds after you've opened a file etc. etc.

What does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based alternatives.

Thaxll 7y ago

Sublime is nowhere in terms of add-ons / language integration compare to VScode, without that it's pretty much useless. Sublime is just a better looking Notepad++

angott 7y ago
In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on extensive IDE support.
rubbingalcohol 7y ago
Oh sure it's useless. I only use it for all my work, but okay. Nice opinion.

hdra 7y ago

The out-of-box "IDE" features it provides (esp. for working with JS/TS projects) is amazing. I still struggle to reproduce that experience with various plugins on Sublime. Thats pretty much it for me. Everyone keeps saying that the performance issue is a myth, but I still experience a very noticeable lag with VSCode, and that keeps me from using it as my main editor.

ehsankia 7y ago
Sometimes, less is more. I completely agree that if you do need IDE-like features, then Sublime is most likely not for you, and any plugin trying to replicate those features falls pretty flat. But if you're doing simple file editing, I much prefer Sublime Text as it's faster and the UI much cleaner, not bloated with hundreds of buttons and options and huge context menus for things I'll never need. A lot of IDEs have silly limitations about creating projects or files. I like being able to open a blank scratch file on Sublime, set the syntax mode if I need to, and start editing text right away. The half a second to open is also amazing.

drcongo 7y ago

I've tried them, you're not missing anything unless you like typing lag, appalling scrolling performance, syntax highlighting that happens several seconds after you've opened a file etc. etc.