You can do it, but it's significantly harder. And with Electron, you can leverage the same skills that are used to build web applications to modify your environment and text editor as well. Those are very significant advantages.

Note: I don't use VS Code or any other JS editor, I use emacs. But I can definitely appreciate the major benefits of the architecture.

I build both web apps and Qt apps. TBH, doing something in Qt is about 1/10 to 1/100 the effort of doing it on the web. The web is a morass of confusing standards, none of which work well together. To get guaranteed, predictable behavior which is documented, and will continue to work properly for 10 years after deployment (with only minor maintainence), you simply cannot use the web.

So does it have a NoScript plugin to kill the unavoidable 200 tracking and ad scripts from Google, Facebook and who knows what running in the background? I am sorry if I offend someone with this, however the current Web experience is something I want as far away from my dev. tools as possible.

While your concern might be valid in general, this is applicable to native software just as much.

tracking or ad scripts by facebook or google are in neither atom nor VSCode.

both projects are open source if you care to verify

well, but something similar: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

you're being asked while installing f you're fine with anonymized usage information being send to MS for further development of the software.

its a simple checkpoint and pretty much every actively developing project does this nowadays.

We have 'native' text editors. Sublime Text is very similar to VS Code in many ways. But with Sublime I haven't got up and running writing, running, debugging code in various languages like I have in VS Code.

The whole experience is important. For many, it's more important than the individual 'feature' of being light on resources.

I currently ignore the fact that VS Code is 'heavy' as text editors go, because it's so much lighter than e.g. Visual Studio, leaving me much more RAM free for some of the code I'm running to gobble up and use for its own ends.

I'd prefer lighter 'weight' - in terms of RAM and CPU usage - but I'm not tempted back to Sublime yet.

BTW I'm a vi person, so I'm using vi keybindings in VS, VS Code, Sublime - and anywhere else I can do so. I love Vim's speed, but I can't Get Stuff Done in it like I can in more modern editors. I mastered the keys, not the inbuilt windowing system, scripting language, etc.

I'm always confused when people say this, I've tried a lot of vim modes and to a T I've never found any that were satisfactory.

I really believe that if you find these vim plugins useful you don't really use vim all that deeply. that's not a criticism, just an observation.