[PhilipA]

What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?

[adrice727]

I recently switched from Atom to VS Code. Everything in VS Code just seems to work, and I don't have any of the high CPU usage issues I had with Atom.

[grinich]

Atom currently has more plugins, larger community, etc.

Ironically, both are built on ElectronJS: http://electron.atom.io/

[erokar]

Ecosystem, but not much more. Code is faster and has very good intellisense for JS. Though it's still in Beta it's been very stable and a pleasure to use.

[hccampos]

Indeed, the VSCode intellisense for JS is amazing, especially after the latest February release.

[vbit]

Given it is open source, couldn't Atom just re-use VSCode's intellisense?

[taylorwc]

I use and like both. VS Code is definitely faster, but I love the tabs in Atom. As someone who grew up more in a browser than in a terminal, it just feels very natural. There are also more packages available within the Atom ecosystem, or at least, discovering useful packages and searching through them is better.

[jaxondu]

When you have a faster computer?