From Sublime Text to VS Code

Ready for a change of scenery?

As a long time Sublime Text 2 user I could never get to grips with other editors. Years of practice meant the key commands were almost hard wired into my brain, and although I tried and liked several alternatives I just couldn’t give up on the multi-editing, super fast searching and simplicity.

Then from out of nowhere came VS Code, an open source code editor by Microsoft(!?). After seeing a lot of good reviews on my twitter timeline I gave it a go, with no expectations.

After playing around with it I was left confused and aroused, it was.. good!

For the last three weeks I’ve been using VS Code exclusively. Although there was some initial friction I am currently liking it a lot.

This post is for anyone curious about VS Code, but mainly for ST2 users wanting to try something.. new. Something similar, but new.

All right. Let me pitch it to you.