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What are the best Anaconda editors?
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Visual Studio Code
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MIT, Proprietary (official builds)
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Visual Studio Code
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Active development
It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes.
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Slow launch time
Than it's competitors, e.g. Sublime Text.
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Windows, macOS, Linux
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MIT, Proprietary (official builds)
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Extendable through plugins
Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plugins available to extend its functionality.
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File search is extremely slow
It's absolutely not possible to use this tool with big projects given how long it takes to search for files.
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Updated frequently
There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily.
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A "me too" offering from MS, far behind other well established editors that it attempts to clone
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Integrated terminal
There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor.
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The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm
Sometimes it doesn't tell you if you made a typo in a method name or if a method is not used and several other important features.
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JavaScript IntelliSense support
JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code.
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.sass linting is terrible
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High fidelity C# plugin
The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support.
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Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags
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TypeScript integration
There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript.
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Great performance
For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well.
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Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript
Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript.
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Libre/open source
Released under the MIT License.
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Integrated debugging
VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
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Ready to use out of the box
You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered.
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ESLint integration
ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style.
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Huge community behind it
The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows.
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Integrated task runners
Task runners display lists of available tasks and performing these tasks is as simple as a click of the mouse.
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Embedded Git control
Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.
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Support RTL languages
It supports pretty web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it.
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Custom snippets support
Snippets are templates that will insert text for you and adapt it to their context, and in VSC they are highly customizable.
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