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Light Table vs Visual Studio Code

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Light Table vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Introduction:

Light Table and Visual Studio Code are both popular code editors used by developers. While they share some similarities, there are several key differences between the two. In this markdown, we will explore and highlight the main differences between Light Table and Visual Studio Code.

  1. Installation and Platform Support: Light Table is known for its simplicity and ease of installation. It is available on multiple platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. On the other hand, Visual Studio Code provides a wider range of platform support including Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it accessible to a larger user base.

  2. Extensions and Customization: Visual Studio Code offers a vast number of extensions and customization options, providing developers with a wide range of tools and features. This allows them to tailor their coding environment to their specific needs and preferences. While Light Table also supports extensions, its library of available extensions is relatively smaller compared to Visual Studio Code.

  3. Language Support and IntelliSense: Visual Studio Code offers robust language support with built-in IntelliSense, which provides intelligent code completion and suggestions, making coding faster and more efficient. It supports a wide range of programming languages out of the box. Light Table also provides language support but its IntelliSense capabilities may not be as advanced as Visual Studio Code.

  4. Debugger Integration: Visual Studio Code excels in its debugger integration capabilities. It provides seamless debugging experience with breakpoints, call stacks, and variable inspection for various programming languages. Light Table also supports debugging but its debugging features may not be as extensive as what Visual Studio Code offers.

  5. Git Integration: Both Light Table and Visual Studio Code offer Git integration, allowing developers to easily manage version control within their code editing environment. However, Visual Studio Code provides more advanced Git integration features such as side-by-side diff views, commit history, and staging changes, making it a preferred choice for developers working on projects with extensive version control needs.

  6. Community and Support: Visual Studio Code has a larger community and support base, which is reflected in its extensive documentation, forums, and online resources. Developers using Visual Studio Code can find plenty of help and support from the community when facing issues or seeking guidance. While Light Table also has a supportive community, it may not have the same level of resources and community engagement as Visual Studio Code.

In Summary, Visual Studio Code offers a wider range of platform support, extensive customization options, advanced Git integration, and a larger community and support base compared to Light Table.

Decisions about Light Table and Visual Studio Code
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views
Chose
Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
over
GoLandGoLandSublime TextSublime Text
at

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.

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 1.2M views
Chose
Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
over
Sublime TextSublime Text
in

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 Light Table
Pros of Visual Studio Code
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    • 339
      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 Light Table
    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 Light Table?

      It is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It gives real time feedback on the changes you make to your code, and shows how data values flow through your entire program. As such, it doesn't just provide the answers, but instead helps you understand why the answers are what they are.

      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 are some alternatives to Light Table and Visual Studio Code?
        Atom
        At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
        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.
        Brackets
        With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
        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.
        Visual Studio
        Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.
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