![]() ![]() VSC is for unprincipled cheapskates with limited aesthetic sense or for coders with very serious financial limitations until they can afford something native. I don’t recommend VSC (reasons outlined in main section). Full of Microsoft telemetry: after user revolt, Microsoft made it possible to turn VSC telemetry off. Same memory efficiency issues as Atom or any web browser. By far the most powerful and best maintained of the fully free editors. It doesn’t look very Mac but it doesn’t look terrible. VSC is an extremely powerful application, with some amazing extendible libraries. A slightly better clone of the original Electron code editor, Atom. As Microsoft neglectware it’s a dead end. Still, Atom as a Github project was very intriguing. Huge memory requirements to run and for each open file. Atom apparently is at the core of the Electron app revolution (write once in js, CSS and HTML, run inefficiently everywhere). Atom is still maintained but hasn’t had much active development since Microsoft acquired Github as Microsoft already had its own free power editor, VSC. I’m a happy Tranmit user and since Interarchy disappeared into the sunset I recommend it to some clients but buying Transmit or Coda/Nova across our whole agency is basically without discounts and expensive to maintain (2 x $50 updates for Code/Nova) and now $49/year subscription. Coda and Nova look great but don’t bring much new to the party and are another $100 plunge with expensive updates. FTP hall of fame builders of Transmit, Panic has been trying to get an editor app right since 2007. Version control unfortunately is another separate and equally expensive product, Sublime Merge. Say what you want (and I will) about Sublime Text functionality, it’s a financially stable and viable project, scrupulously maintained by its pedantic creators. Claim to fame is its extreme customability. Each version has been a paid update and now updates are on an annual plan.
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