On: The State of JavaScript 2018

[kojoru]

One important data point there is Visual Studio Code.

It used to be really popular in 2017 (double the popularity of Atom/Sublime/Webstorm), now it's just eating everyone's lunch (triple the popularity of Sublime/Vim/Webstorm/Atom, almost equal to all of them combined).

Also Atom is declining sharply.

Compare https://2018.stateofjs.com/other-tools/ to https://2017.stateofjs.com/2017/other-tools/

[pavlov → kojoru]

Microsoft owns both VS Code and Atom, so probably they're not crying in their beers about that...

Anyway, props to Redmond for a major coup — from webdev pariah to owner of the most popular development platforms in just a couple of years! It took both money and sincere dedication, but they managed to effectively turn around the external perception of Microsoft in this field.

[SnowingXIV → kojoru]

This makes total sense too. I was so hesitant to use something besides Sublime forever, then I tested out Atom and it was slow (this has probably since been improved) and didn't offer much more so the trade off wasn't worth it for looking pretty. Bounced around a few others and then thought I'll try out the VSCode thing, hooked right away and it seems to keep getting better.

[minor3rd → SnowingXIV]

Same experience as you. Thought I would always use sublime but my coworkers were so adamant about VSCode that I finally gave it a try. I don't even know that I can point to any single reason for it being better than Sublime -- feels like everything just works a little more seamlessly.

[tracker1 → SnowingXIV]

After Atom and Brackets, I almost didn't even give VS Code a try... I'm really glad I did... everything I want in an editor (except maybe binary/hex mode). Integrated terminal and the directory tree are hands down my favorite features, I've seen the directory tree before, but never as good an integrated terminal..

[nolok → kojoru]

Fully deserved from where I stand.

I have 3 editors I regularly use, emacs when I need to edit something in a terminal (eg ssh'ed somewhere), Intellij when I need a full blown IDE (refactoring and debugging), VSCode for everything else.

It's fast, well updated, works well ...

[rafaelvasco → kojoru]

VSCode does everything so well, that it is hard to compete right now. It really was built upon the lessons learned from several others code editors.

[vegasdew → kojoru]

VSCode seems unstoppable. From my limited understanding, it has very powerful architecture, and it will be most popular editor for .net, Go, Python, Rust in couple of years.