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I tried VSCode and Sublime each for a month earlier this year.

I was surprised to find myself deciding on Sublime at the end of it.

It came down to performance but also clutter. Sublime is fast. But also, VSCode just had too many panels and bells and whistles.

And VSCode's defaults were just all wrong. Like trying to autocomplete every other word when I'm typing text in a .txt file -- it's not even code! I couldn't believe how many random options I had to hunt down just to make typing usable and not trying to insert a million things.

Typing in Sublime seems to operate... just how I expect it to.

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contriban4y ago

Now that you say it, I also feel that VSCode defaults are wrong. It’s a bunch of small things that feel off.

paxys4y ago

Yeah, I use VS Code daily but it took me a very long time to set it up in the way I liked. Everything from colors, text/menu sizes, fonts, toolbars to shortcuts and more. I'd say ridiculous customizability is a big benefit of VS Code in that regard.

onion2k4y ago

The defaults are there to onboard people, or to work for people who are light users. Any tool, not just VSCode, you use for hours with every day is worth spending some time configuring to the way you want and work well in. Learning it, configuring it, and even extending it with your own plugins, can pay huge dividends for your productivity.

imbnwa4y ago

Teams is also full of "doing too much" in the GUI too for what its worth. Seems to be modern Microsoft's thing.

jay_kyburz4y ago

I don't like the super flat UI of VScode. I can see where things start and end.

markus_zhang4y ago

I think Atom also does that. I need to escape a lot during typing text files. Notepad++ also does that. But I do understand getting auto complete comfortable is difficult.

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