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[#]: subject: "Visual Studio Code or Atom? Which Code Editor Should You Use?"
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[#]: via: "https://itsfoss.com/visual-studio-code-vs-atom/"
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[#]: author: "Pratham Patel https://itsfoss.com/author/pratham/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972"
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Visual Studio Code or Atom? Which Code Editor Should You Use?
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Finding a [good open source code editor][1] is not hard these days, choosing one can be.
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Microsoft’s [Visual Studio Code][2] and GitHub’s [Atom][3] are two of the most popular, feature-rich, IDE-like code editors that have a huge user base and fan following.
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Both VS Code and Atom belong to Microsoft now because Atom’s original developer GitHub is now owned by Microsoft. They have an interesting, modern UI with a pretty looking native dark theme. Both editors use [Electron][4] for the user interface.
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The similarities are plenty and this is why it is easy to get confused between choosing one of them for your coding set up.
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If you cannot make up your mind and want to compare and choose between one VS Code and Atom, this article should help you decide for yourself.
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### Visual Studio Code
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![Visual Studio Code’s User Interface with a busy project interface][5]
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[Visual Studio Code][2] (A.K.A. VS Code) is one of the modern open source code editors. Its user-base explode because of its IDE-like features but still remaining relatively light on resources.
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Visual Studio Code was made by Microsoft and is available on Linux, macOS and Windows. Microsoft released _most_ of the source code of Visual Studio Code on [GitHub][6] under the MIT License on 18th November 2015.
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VS Code developers have done some fantastic optimizations with Electron to make it as lightweight and efficient as possible. And since Electron apps work on a majority of operating systems, users of Linux, macOS and Windows can all benefit from these optimizations.
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[Installing VS Code on Linux][7] is pretty simple too. It is in fact available in the software center of many distributions.
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#### Why you should opt for Visual Studio Code
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* Visual Studio Code is [generally] chosen by folks who want a near-IDE functionality from the start and do not want to fiddle with their code editor.
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* Visual Studio Code, even though based on Electron, has very little overhead compared to other Electron apps (GitHub’s Atom).
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* More out-of-the-box functionality like Microsoft’s IntelliSense auto-complete, Git integration, Markdown support.
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* Plug-ins can only add features, themes and add support for new languages; and this plug-in constraint ensures the editor’s core stays familiar even after adding new plug-ins.
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The binary releases [distributed by Microsoft][8] are still proprietary freeware. [VSCodium][9] builds upon the publicly open source code of Visual Studio Code. However, the discussion on VSCodium is beyond the scope of this article, except for considering it as a viable alternative to Visual Studio Code if you want the functionality Visual Studio Code offers, but without any proprietary elements to it.
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### Atom
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![User Interface of the Atom editor][10]
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[GitHub’s Atom][3] is another free and open source code editor available for Linux, macOS and Windows. Atom is a desktop application made with Electron for easy package development using JavaScript.
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Atom’s source code was released under the MIT License [on GitHub][11]. Since Atom is a GitHub product, it has Git Control embedded in it.
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Atom is dubbed as the “hackable text editor for the 21st Century” because of it complete customizability using HTML, CSS and JS.
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Like VS Code, you can easily [install Atom on Linux][12] and other platforms.
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#### Reasons to choose Atom
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* Atom is preferred by people who want a bare-bones editor and want to build upon it because of Atom’s hackable nature.
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* In-built Git and complete GitHub integration; not surprising considering it is developed by GitHub
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* [Atom’s plug-ins][13] are very easy to search, install and upgrade, from the app itself.
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* Plug-ins available for Atom are very extensible, and can end up completely changing the editor’s functionality and end up creating almost a new editor; It truly is “hackable”.
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* Atom’s binary releases and its source code are fully open source (unlike Visual Studio Code’s binary releases containing proprietary parts + telemetry).
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* You can [turn Atom from a code editor to IDE][14] with smarter context-aware auto-completion, code navigation features, document formatting and more.
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### Conclusion
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Both Atom and VS Code are built on Electron. But Microsoft has done more optimization on VS Code to make it as lightweight as possible.
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At this point, VS Code is like Ubuntu, ships with almost everything out of the box. While Atom is like Arch, minimal and extremely hackable (extendable).
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Both, Atom and VS Code technically are under Microsoft and eventually will reach feature parity. Hence, it is best to go with the editor your community (Web dev/Soft dev) leans towards and pave the path ahead. Maybe you end up with Vim!
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via: https://itsfoss.com/visual-studio-code-vs-atom/
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作者:[Pratham Patel][a]
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选题:[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/pratham/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://itsfoss.com/best-modern-open-source-code-editors-for-linux/
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[2]: https://code.visualstudio.com/
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[3]: https://atom.io/
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[4]: https://www.electronjs.org/
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[5]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/04_visual_studio_code.png?resize=800%2C544&ssl=1
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[6]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
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[7]: https://itsfoss.com/install-visual-studio-code-ubuntu/
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[8]: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
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[9]: https://vscodium.com/
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[10]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/05_atom.png?resize=800%2C527&ssl=1
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[11]: https://github.com/atom/atom
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[12]: https://itsfoss.com/install-atom-ubuntu/
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[13]: https://itsfoss.com/install-packages-in-atom/
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[14]: https://ide.atom.io/
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