I am an Atom user. Coding isn't my main job, but it is part of it. I really appreciate how cool VIM is and I once spent an afternoon trying various plug-ins and getting something to code with. At least now I can edit files on our Solaris machine and know how to save and exit.
On the other hand I installed Atom and started coding right away. It had a sensible font and colour scheme, a nice file explorer and tab indents four-spaces. But best of all, it does this on Python, SQL, Markdown, HTML, and all the other things I have to dabble in with zero config. Yes it uses a fair bit of memory (I use an ancient Thinkpad T410 with 4GB ram and am doing OK). It also sucks at opening really big files, like log files, but cat, grep, head and tail deal with those anyway. But apart from that it is great. If I could be bothered I would try VScode again to do a comparison, but I have no real need. If my projects ever run to hundreds of files I will get Intellij.
On the other hand I installed Atom and started coding right away. It had a sensible font and colour scheme, a nice file explorer and tab indents four-spaces. But best of all, it does this on Python, SQL, Markdown, HTML, and all the other things I have to dabble in with zero config. Yes it uses a fair bit of memory (I use an ancient Thinkpad T410 with 4GB ram and am doing OK). It also sucks at opening really big files, like log files, but cat, grep, head and tail deal with those anyway. But apart from that it is great. If I could be bothered I would try VScode again to do a comparison, but I have no real need. If my projects ever run to hundreds of files I will get Intellij.
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