![]() By this time, I had changed companies and escaped the large Magento 2 projects, and was working on a (much smaller) pure React app. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what made me stop using Atom and begin using VS Code exclusively. Most people were persuasive about the features of VS Code, while others just unhelpfully rolled their eyes and scoffed “you’re still using Atom?” (try not to be this person!). My laptop often sounded like it was about to take off, because the fans were always on while I was coding, and it was prone to freezing and crashing when I tried to navigate the folder directory.Īround this time, I heard more and more positive reactions from colleagues and developers on my Twitter feed about VS Code. However, I began working on Magento 2 projects, which contained a lot of files (mostly backend PHP) and this meant that Atom’s performance started to suffer on my MacBook. I added my own code snippets, changed the colour contrast to make things easier to read, had a collection of favourite packages, and even developed some packages of my own for it (even releasing one: rainbow tree). It was open-source, which made me feel virtuous, developed by a company that I admire (GitHub), and I loved being able to customise it (even though I only ever used a slight variation of the default colour theme!). Back then, Atom was relatively new and shiny, which was all the reason I needed to choose it! (developers can be fickle) So I downloaded Atom and started the irritating period of learning new software: relearning keyboard shortcuts, locating menu items and working out how to customise settings. ![]() Even in 2016, I felt like Sublime Text was a little dated and that there were more up-to-date alternatives. I had just finished a role where I used IntelliJ, but I wasn’t in love with it, and I wanted to use an editor that didn’t require a licence. I started a new job in 2016 and needed to install a code editor to my new laptop. It’s been six months since I made the full-time switch to Microsoft’s VS Code, which I thought was a good point to reflect on the experience so far. But after seeing so much positive reaction to VS Code, I decided it was time for a change. ![]() ![]() I’ve been a long-time user of GitHub’s Atom, using it as my primary code editor for three years (and three years is a lifetime in the world of frontend development right?). ![]()
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