[cyberferret]

Point taken, but you have to admit that the surge from Atom (which was the darling of startups everywhere) to VS Code in the past few months has been a stampede.

I never really had issues with Atom until co-incidentally today, when I had to open a large log file, and Atom kept crashing without being able to open it. VS Code opened it in 2 seconds and I could scroll around it blitzingly fast.

Given that both are built on the Electron engine, I have to say the VS Code seems like it has been architected better to handle large files.

[pedalpete]

Actually, I didn't know there had been a surge to VS Code. I haven't noticed anybody at my work using it except for me. Lots of Atom around, but maybe the winds are changing.

[cyberferret]

I am just going by my totally unscientific analysis of HN posts lately. Almost any thread talking about Atom updates or announcements seem to be flooded with "Oh, I've switched to VS Code and it is better..." type comments.

As opposed to about 12 months ago when most Sublime or editor threads were peppered with "Have you seen Atom? It's the antz pantz..." stuff.