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Pros of CodePen
Pros of Sublime Text
Pros of Visual Studio Code
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    • 720
      Lightweight
    • 652
      Plugins
    • 641
      Super fast
    • 468
      Great code editor
    • 442
      Cross platform
    • 280
      Nice UI
    • 260
      Unlimited trial
    • 153
      Cmd + d is the best command ever
    • 92
      Great community
    • 46
      Package control, modules
    • 26
      Mac OS X support
    • 23
      Easy to get started with
    • 22
      Monokai
    • 21
      Everything you need without the bloat
    • 21
      Built in Python
    • 18
      Easy
    • 14
      Speed
    • 12
      Session & edit resuming
    • 10
      Package Control
    • 9
      Well Designed
    • 8
      Multiple selections
    • 7
      ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
    • 7
      Nice
    • 7
      Fast, simple and lightweight
    • 5
      It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
    • 5
      So futuristic and convenient
    • 5
      ALT + F3 the best command ever
    • 5
      Great
    • 4
      Find anything fast within entire project
    • 4
      Easy to use
    • 4
      Free
    • 4
      Simple and clean design
    • 3
      Hackable
    • 3
      Pretty
    • 3
      UI + plugins
    • 3
      Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
    • 2
      Totally customizable
    • 2
      Color schemes and cmd+d
    • 2
      Material theme best theme forever
    • 0
      Const
    • 340
      Powerful multilanguage IDE
    • 308
      Fast
    • 193
      Front-end develop out of the box
    • 158
      Support TypeScript IntelliSense
    • 142
      Very basic but free
    • 126
      Git integration
    • 106
      Intellisense
    • 78
      Faster than Atom
    • 53
      Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
    • 45
      Great Refactoring Tools
    • 44
      Good Plugins
    • 42
      Terminal
    • 38
      Superb markdown support
    • 36
      Open Source
    • 35
      Extensions
    • 26
      Awesome UI
    • 26
      Large & up-to-date extension community
    • 24
      Powerful and fast
    • 22
      Portable
    • 18
      Best code editor
    • 18
      Best editor
    • 17
      Easy to get started with
    • 15
      Lots of extensions
    • 15
      Good for begginers
    • 15
      Crossplatform
    • 15
      Built on Electron
    • 14
      Extensions for everything
    • 14
      Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
    • 14
      All Languages Support
    • 13
      Easy to use and learn
    • 12
      "fast, stable & easy to use"
    • 12
      Extensible
    • 11
      Ui design is great
    • 11
      Totally customizable
    • 11
      Git out of the box
    • 11
      Useful for begginer
    • 11
      Faster edit for slow computer
    • 10
      SSH support
    • 10
      Great community
    • 10
      Fast Startup
    • 9
      Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
    • 9
      Great language support
    • 9
      Powerful Debugger
    • 9
      It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
    • 8
      Can compile and run .py files
    • 8
      Python extension is fast
    • 7
      Features rich
    • 7
      Great document formater
    • 6
      He is not Michael
    • 6
      Extension Echosystem
    • 6
      She is not Rachel
    • 6
      Awesome multi cursor support
    • 5
      VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
    • 5
      Language server client
    • 5
      SFTP Workspace
    • 5
      Very proffesional
    • 5
      Easy azure
    • 4
      Has better support and more extentions for debugging
    • 4
      Supports lots of operating systems
    • 4
      Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
    • 4
      Virtualenv integration
    • 3
      Better autocompletes than Atom
    • 3
      Has more than enough languages for any developer
    • 3
      'batteries included'
    • 3
      More tools to integrate with vs
    • 3
      Emmet preinstalled
    • 2
      VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
    • 2
      CMake support with autocomplete
    • 2
      Microsoft
    • 2
      Customizable
    • 2
      Light
    • 2
      Big extension marketplace
    • 2
      Fast and ruby is built right in
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    Cons of CodePen
    Cons of Sublime Text
    Cons of Visual Studio Code
    • 4
      No support for any other git-server than github
    • 8
      Steep learning curve
    • 7
      Everything
    • 4
      Flexibility to move file
    • 4
      Number of plugins doing the same thing
    • 4
      Doesn't act like a Mac app
    • 3
      Not open sourced
    • 2
      Don't have flutter integration
    • 2
      Forces you to buy license
    • 46
      Slow startup
    • 29
      Resource hog at times
    • 20
      Poor refactoring
    • 13
      Poor UI Designer
    • 11
      Weak Ui design tools
    • 10
      Poor autocomplete
    • 8
      Super Slow
    • 8
      Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
    • 8
      Microsoft sends telemetry data
    • 7
      Poor in PHP
    • 6
      It's MicroSoft
    • 3
      Poor in Python
    • 3
      No Built in Browser Preview
    • 3
      No color Intergrator
    • 3
      Very basic for java development and buggy at times
    • 3
      No built in live Preview
    • 3
      Electron
    • 2
      Bad Plugin Architecture
    • 2
      Powered by Electron
    • 1
      Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
    • 1
      Slow C++ Language Server

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    What is CodePen?

    It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them.

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    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

    What is Visual Studio Code?

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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