TextMate vs Vim vs Visual Studio Code

Pros of TextMate

• 17

  Syntax highlighting
• 5

  Javascript
• 5

  PHP Developer
• 4

  Native UI
• 4

  jQuery developer
• 3

  Ruby
• 2

  Bundles
• 2

  Snippets
• 2

  MacOS native
• 2

  Commands
• 2

  Low Energy Usage
• 2

  Starts fast
• 2

  Keyboard shortcuts
• 2

  Open Source
• 2

  Clean ui

Pros of Vim

• 347

  Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
• 328

  Fast
• 312

  Highly configurable
• 297

  Less mouse dependence
• 247

  Lightweight
• 145

  Speed
• 100

  Plugins
• 97

  Hardcore
• 82

  It's for pros
• 65

  Vertically split windows
• 30

  Open-source
• 25

  Modal editing
• 22

  No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
• 21

  It stood the Test of Time
• 16

  Unicode
• 13

  VimPlugins
• 13

  Everything is on the keyboard
• 13

  Stick with terminal
• 12

  Dotfiles
• 11

  Flexible Indenting
• 10

  Hands stay on the keyboard
• 10

  Efficient and powerful
• 10

  Programmable
• 9

  Everywhere
• 9

  Large number of Shortcuts
• 8

  A chainsaw for text editing
• 8

  Unmatched productivity
• 7

  Developer speed
• 7

  Super fast
• 7

  Makes you a true bearded developer
• 7

  Because its not Emacs
• 7

  Modal editing changes everything
• 6

  You cannot exit
• 6

  Themes
• 5

  EasyMotion
• 5

  Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
• 5

  Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
• 5

  Intergrated into most editors
• 5

  Shortcuts
• 5

  Great on large text files
• 5

  Habit
• 5

  Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
• 4

  Intuitive, once mastered
• 4

  Perfect command line editor
• 1

  Not MicroSoft

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 TextMate

Cons of Vim

• 8

  Ugly UI
• 5

  Hard to learn

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