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elorant on Oct 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Visual Studio Code 1.6

How does VS Code compares to Atom? If I'm not mistaken they're both written in Electron, right?

sidusknight on Oct 10, 2016 | [–]

VS Code doesn't run like shit.

unsignedint on Oct 11, 2016 | | [–]

It supports Unicode BOM correctly. Looks like this STILL is a long standing issue for Atom.[0]

[0]:https://github.com/atom/encoding-selector/issues/18

laurentdc on Oct 11, 2016 | [–]

Much faster and less of a memory hog.

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