If you have tried vscode in the past, and disliked it give it another try. I gave it an hour of my time to set it up again and it is awesome. I've preferred sublime in the past, but they've improved so much, it's really nice.

I always wonder why some people prefer code/text editors like Atom, VS Code or Sublime over full fledged IDEs like the JetBrains suite, Eclipse or Visual Studio. Care to enlighten me?

@gathurian i dont need an ide for javascript and python. I do use one for java because it helps a lot, but for script languages, a code editor is perfectly fine.

@sharktits of course you might not need it, but if there's a specialized tool tailored for that language, why not use it?

@gathurian because i like my laptop under 90000 degrees and my ram under 102%

@sharktits Good point...
In that case I hope you're not running any electron apps :P

@gathurian erm.... totally not*

*perhaps

@gathurian besides what my boi said about not needing one for scripting langs, there are some amazing plugins for those editors that give them nearly the same functionality as an IDE(not quite tho, Pycharm and phpstorm are things of beauty)

@gathurian because I do not need a heavy artillery if I wanna build the basic html css js website

@gathurian text editors are like thin and light laptops. They are small and get the job done with finesse for Scripting languages. For c# or Java I use ide's.

I mainly code in Haskell myself and VSCode is the best option that I’ve found for that so far. There aren’t too many dedicated platforms for Haskell development, but VSCode has a very nice workflow for me.

For Python I use Atom, because most of the Python code I write is Pandas/Scikit-Learn and the Hydrogen plug-in for Atom makes for a very nice workflow when dealing with lots of plots & dataframes.

I love Vscode too. It has just the things I really need and if not there is sure plugin for it.

Mind I do python and my favorite way before this was just Geany and IDLE.

@gathurian in my case, it really depends on what I am writing. In general, if I have an IDE for the language, I will use it. However, if it is a small change, or a simple test I want to do or something, I would write it with a simpler text editor, or even vim, because they open MUCH faster. (Disclaimer: I may have been spoiled by JetBrains 😉)

@AleCx04 I just wonder why you would add dozens of plugins to an editor when there's a program that has all of that already built in. Is it the free choice of WHAT to install?

@aritzh of course, editing code with a code editor makes sense. However, fully developing in them seems like a waste of time.

And I, too have sold my soul to JetBrains... Once I graduate I'll have the massive problem to either find a new IDE or pay like 500 bucks a year for all the professional editions

they open really fast

@gathurian I will pay for them, because they are one of the best products I have ever used. If I work on Python or Java I may be able to use the free ones, but I would still lack the others for my hobby projects, so I will probably pay for the whole kit.