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CotEditor vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Introduction

CotEditor and Visual Studio Code are both popular code editors used by developers. While they have similarities in terms of their main purpose of editing code, there are key differences that set them apart. In this comparison, we will highlight the six most important differences between CotEditor and Visual Studio Code.

1. Extension Availability: Visual Studio Code has a far greater number of available extensions compared to CotEditor. This means that users of Visual Studio Code have access to a wider range of tools and functionalities that can enhance their coding experience.

2. Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Features: Visual Studio Code offers powerful IDE features, such as built-in debugging, intelligent code completion, and version control integration. CotEditor, on the other hand, is more focused on providing a lightweight and minimalist code editing experience.

3. Multi-Language Support: While both editors support multiple programming languages, Visual Studio Code has a more extensive suite of language support out-of-the-box. It also provides better language service integration, making it a preferred choice for developers working on diverse projects.

4. Customization Options: Visual Studio Code offers a high level of customization options, allowing users to tailor the editor to their specific needs and preferences. CotEditor, while still customizable, has a more limited range of customization features.

5. Community and Documentation: Visual Studio Code has a large and active community of users, which results in regular updates, bug fixes, and a wealth of online resources. CotEditor, being less popular, has a smaller community and may have less comprehensive documentation and support available.

6. Cross-Platform Compatibility: Visual Studio Code is available on multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux. CotEditor, on the other hand, is only compatible with macOS, which may limit its usability for developers who work across different platforms.

In summary, Visual Studio Code offers a wider range of extensions, powerful IDE features, extensive language support, advanced customization options, a more active community, and cross-platform compatibility, making it a more versatile and robust code editor compared to CotEditor.

Decisions about CotEditor and Visual Studio Code

Samriddhi Sinha

Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · Sep 26, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 971.8K views

Chose

over

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.

Kamaleshwar BN

Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

Chose

over

Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

Simon Ibssa

Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 1.2M views

Chose

Visual Studio Code

over

Sublime Text

My Stack

I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of CotEditor

Pros of Visual Studio Code

3
Excellent support for Japanese encoding

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
34
Extensions
26
Large & up-to-date extension community
26
Awesome UI
24
Powerful and fast
22
Portable
18
Best editor
18
Best code editor
17
Easy to get started with
15
Lots of extensions
15
Built on Electron
15
Crossplatform
15
Good for begginers
14
Extensions for everything
14
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
14
All Languages Support
13
Easy to use and learn
12
Extensible
12
"fast, stable & easy to use"
11
Totally customizable
11
Git out of the box
11
Faster edit for slow computer
11
Ui design is great
11
Useful for begginer
10
Great community
10
SSH support
10
Fast Startup
9
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
9
Powerful Debugger
9
Great language support
9
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
8
Python extension is fast
8
Can compile and run .py files
7
Great document formater
7
Features rich
6
He is not Michael
6
Awesome multi cursor support
6
Extension Echosystem
6
She is not Rachel
5
Language server client
5
Easy azure
5
SFTP Workspace
5
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
5
Very proffesional
4
Supports lots of operating systems
4
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
4
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
4
Virtualenv integration
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
Better autocompletes than Atom
3
Emmet preinstalled
3
'batteries included'
3
More tools to integrate with vs
2
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
2
Big extension marketplace
2
Customizable
2
Microsoft
2
Light
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
2
CMake support with autocomplete

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Cons of CotEditor

Cons of Visual Studio Code

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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 CotEditor?

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.

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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What companies use CotEditor?

What companies use Visual Studio Code?

+Li, Inc

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What tools integrate with CotEditor?

What tools integrate with Visual Studio Code?

No integrations found

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What are some alternatives to CotEditor and Visual Studio Code?

BBEdit

It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

TextMate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

Sublime Text

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.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

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