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by Etheryte 3284 days ago
As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?
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I switched from Atom to VSCode a while ago, but I still miss a very good git extension (which I can't find now, sorry) which put timeline marks by change size in the bottom of the editor window to allow easily viewing diffs. The best regex railroad viewer extension I found was also much better than in VSCode. As well, VSCode seems to have some bad UI paradigms, for example, using Prettier, syntax fails pile up obnoxiously. I suspect all these differences are because Atom had better UI access for extension developers. I'd switch back to Atom but I found it had a few glitches and VSCode has stronger features such as debugging and code comprehension built in.
UI themes, and a much more cohesive default theme
Which theme? vscode has hundreds of themes, and most of them ported from sublime text or other editors. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...
This is the best theme on VS Code I've found so far. Lovely. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.t...
This is the default Atom theme.
VS Code has full UI theming now. I've personally never used a default theme on any editor.
A theme is your main reason to pick an editor? Wow
dont know why you have been downvoted but, yeah if you are choosing your editor for a theme i can only LOL