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Brackets vs VimR: What are the differences?
Brackets: A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code; VimR: Refined Vim Experience for OS X. Project VimR is an attempt to refine the Vim experience. The goal is to build an editor that uses Vim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors for Mac.
Brackets and VimR can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by Brackets are:
- Code Hints from a PSD
- Inline Editors
- Live Preview
On the other hand, VimR provides the following key features:
- Full Vim
- File Browser
- Fuzzy File Find
Brackets and VimR are both open source tools. Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than VimR with 4.14K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.
Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.
Pros of Brackets
- Beautiful UI51
- Lightweight40
- Extremely customizable25
- Free plugins20
- Live Preview14
- Free themes13
- Clean8
- Easy7
- Integration with photoshop6
- Perfect for web development4
- Simple4
- Fast4
- Awesome UI2
- Clean UI2
- Code suggestions2
Pros of VimR
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Cons of Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1