I'm in the market for a new IDE as Atom is end of life (prev. Sublime)

I tried VSCode and went back to Atom -- it still works fine but expecting that won't last

Ideally I really need one where I can run bash sessions in tabs alongside code, I don't really use autocomplete and such -- but it needs to handle a lot of open large files with zero lag and instant search

>Ideally I really need one where I can run bash sessions in tabs alongside code,

Wouldn't it easily be solved if people were actually using decent desktop environment or take the time to configure it correctly?

I mean it is not complicated to move from ide to terminal if the desktop and shortcuts are well made.

I moved from Atom to VSCode a few years ago. It's a worthy successor, in my opinion.

What were your blockers to moving to VSCode? My remaining issue is to be able to css style any element of the UI like I could with Atom. There're plugins that let you monkey patch to get that feature, but updates to VSCode break them.

Too many windows, panes, misfeatures I don't want, and it's also quite slow.

It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.

All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.

Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.

I switched from Atom to VSCode a while back. Code has better extensions and is faster. Only thing that bothered me is the missing Git view on right side. But now Code lets you have a Primary and Secondary sidebars. I keep Git on right side and File Explorer on left side

I think Pulsar might be interesting: https://pulsar-edit.dev/

I understand these are some folks trying to keep Atom alive.

Vscode now allows terminal to be in editor area along with files.

All the code I work on is hosted on a separate development server, so I used to use Sublime to edit these files over the network, using NFS.

But now I use code-server, which is hosted on the same development server. So everything got a lot faster for me.

Really? I did the switch and there’s no way I could go back to ST.

Sublime still feels a bit snappier to me. The ecosystem around it has obviously fallen behind a bit now though.

Only partially true. The ecosystem has some really awesome plugins: - GitSavvy - Sublime-LSP (plus LSP-Copilot) - Sublime_Debugger - Terminus

All these together and you have a keyboard driven ultrafast IDElike experience.

Agreed. I loved Sublime for years but VS Code is now miles ahead in my opinion.

In what ways do you think VS Code is miles ahead? With language server and debug adapter plugins, I find ST to be a very good replacement for VS Code.

For me it is the plugins, themes, icons etc. As soon as there is a plugin you can't live without, there's no way back. I can't remember which one it was for me but when I saw a co-worker using it I had to give VS Code another try.

Migrating over is easy too as you can import your shortcuts with "Sublime Text Keymap and Settings Importer"

All the plugins, The synced user configuration, github copilot, git integration (although I do use sublime merge a lot on the side), I used to work on a remote copy also via SSH (and I can't remember what plugin), there's just so much available out of vscode now, I feel like every new months it ships new features while sublime text didn't come up with an update in years.