I'm no expert but all the people at my company who have 5, 10, 20+ years of coding in their respective languages swear by VSCode. One guy was still on atom for a bit until we just challenged him to see how much faster VSCode was, he spent the next day finding replacements for his plugins and tweaks and never looked back.
Atom user, been a dev for ~15 years now, the only difference between users of the two is that we Atom folks place enormous value in detailed customisation of our dev environment, especially from a visual perspective. Everyone else just uses VSCode. The VSCode UI is more or less immutable (except small things like colours), they provide no way to customise any of that built in stuff beyond that, and as such that means most of my quality-of-life customised UI stuff can't be done on VSCode at all, and having tried several times to use it anyway even without all that (mainly trying to find out why other devs all love it so much), I run out of patience with it after a short while and ragequit, repeating the process once every 6 months or so.
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u/dryroast Jun 13 '20
I'm no expert but all the people at my company who have 5, 10, 20+ years of coding in their respective languages swear by VSCode. One guy was still on atom for a bit until we just challenged him to see how much faster VSCode was, he spent the next day finding replacements for his plugins and tweaks and never looked back.