Editor Home Pages
My personal use over years has gone: Atom -> Notepad++ -> VS Code. I am not a developer by trade and simply need editors for writing scripts mostly to hack things together. Obviously, fully integrated IDEs for specific languages and platforms are WAY more powerful, and allow developers to work much more efficiently. In reality, in my situation, all three editors are more alike, than different. I wouldn’t fault anyone for using one over the other; it wouldn’t even be worth arguing about. In all honesty, when something else comes out that entices me I’ll likely switch again! That is just about the only thing I can guarantee.
Visual Studio Code
Pluses
- A lot of people are using it. With anything that is free that is a plus.
- It’s backed my Microsoft, so hopefully they’ll support it for a while.
- The extension interface is very user friendly and easy to use.
- It loads extremely quickly; I’m looking at you Atom!
- Files can be copied and/or moved within the file tree explorer.
Overall, I tend to transfer to tools to utilize the ones that people are currently using. With free open source software it’s almost necessary, because there’s active support and development going on for it. Once that support dies off and goes somewhere else though that software tends to get stale pretty quickly.