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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by abrkn on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:23AM (#14066774)
I switched from Atom to VS Code a few weeks ago and find VS Code's performance to be excellent. Haven't used Atom since.
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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by swozey on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:25PM (#14067666)
Were you a heavy Atom plugin user? I'm afraid I'll leave and all of the great plugins won't convert.
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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by andrewguenther on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:52PM (#14068065)
90% of my Atom plugins were built-in for VSCode.

* Terminal built-in

* Sublime style Alt-O for header file switching

* Minimap

* Javascript/Typescript support made a lot of my plugins obsolete

I have language plugins installed for Dockerfiles, protobuf, and a few others, but VSCode felt really complete out-of-the-box. I didn't feel the need to install a ton of plugins to make it useable like I did for Atom.

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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by F2 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:20PM (#14067921)
Which plugins?
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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by dolzenko on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:58AM (#14067523)
Any idea on what exactly VS Code did better to achieve that performance compared with Atom?
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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by killercup on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:43PM (#14068013)
Plugins don't run on the UI thread IIRC
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Re:Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft... by Rapzid on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:46PM (#14068928)
You do. They also have some really smart people(I'm assuming more than one, but at least one has posted on HN about editor optimizations they have made) who seem to pull out all the stops on monaco to produce a very fast "smart" text editor.

Lots of good architecture decisions made. The marriage with TypeScript has also worked out well; it's on fire and coffee is smouldering. This helps with getting people to jump in and contribute.

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