CotEditor vs Emacs vs Visual Studio Code

Pros of CotEditor

• 3

  Excellent support for Japanese encoding

Pros of Emacs

• 65

  Vast array of extensions
• 44

  Have all you can imagine
• 40

  Everything i need in one place
• 39

  Portability
• 32

  Customer config
• 16

  Your config works on any platform
• 13

  Low memory consumption
• 11

  Perfect for monsters
• 10

  All life inside one program
• 8

  Extendable, portable, fast - all at your fingertips
• 6

  Enables extremely rapid keyboard-only navigation
• 5

  Widely-used keybindings (e.g. by bash)
• 5

  Extensible in Lisp
• 5

  Runs everywhere important
• 4

  FOSS Software
• 4

  Powerful multilanguage IDE
• 4

  Git integration
• 4

  May be old but always reliable
• 3

  Asynchronous
• 3

  Powerful UI
• 1

  Huge ecosystem

Pros of Visual Studio Code

• 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
• 1

  File:///C:/Users/ydemi/Downloads/yuksel_demirkaya_webpa

Cons of CotEditor

Cons of Emacs

• 4

  So good and extensible, that one can get sidetracked
• 4

  Hard to learn for beginners
• 1

  Not default preinstalled in GNU/linux

Cons of Visual Studio Code

• 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