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0 pointsbamfly2y ago0 comments

It's better than other Electron programs (a low bar, since most of those perform shockingly poorly) but eats way more system resources and performs noticeably worse than Sublime Text, on my machine.

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wiseowise2y ago

Oh noes, who could’ve thought that application written in JavaScript that gets executed on browser engine is slower than lean C++ that uses their own custom GUI toolkit http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114.

VHRanger2y ago

Sublime text is an editor, VS Code is an IDE, though?

The featuresets aren't the same.

bamflyOP2y ago

I'd say they compete in a similar space of smart plugin-friendly code editor, not IDE.

What are you thinking of, in terms of differences? I use both quite a bit (some of VSCode's plugins are better) and have always viewed them as very close to one another, in terms of features.

tredre32y ago

For one thing VS Code has a full debugger with breakpoints and stack analysis that supports many backends out of the box, that's an IDE feature.

Sublime doesn't have any (real) debugger even with plugins. Some attempt to tack on a debugger but they have to do so via popup menus or overloaded "magical" text buffers and it's atrocious. Why can't I click on the line I want to break on? Why can't I see the stack in a nice editable tree? Right, because sublime is a text editor and VS Code is an IDE.

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