After TextMate 1.x stopped being updated in 2010-ish, I moved to Sublime Text which felt very TextMate-y, but was a much better piece of software.
Then, in 2020 as the pandemic began, I decided to give Visual Studio Code a try. For this experiment, I chose to use it exclusively for one full week doing real work, and finding solutions for the things that bugged me.
I think it’s been more than a week at this point because I’m still using it full-time. It has a full development team (instead of 1–2 developers who go back-and-forth and how active they are in maintaining the project), and the community who builds things for it is gigantic.
Yes, technically it’s slower than either TextMate or Sublime Text. When I run Linux virtual machines or other lower-performance systems, I use Sublime Text. But after Ogden failed to update TextMate for 4–5 years, I decided it was time to move on. I haven’t used it in over a decade.
Then, in 2020 as the pandemic began, I decided to give Visual Studio Code a try. For this experiment, I chose to use it exclusively for one full week doing real work, and finding solutions for the things that bugged me.
I think it’s been more than a week at this point because I’m still using it full-time. It has a full development team (instead of 1–2 developers who go back-and-forth and how active they are in maintaining the project), and the community who builds things for it is gigantic.
Yes, technically it’s slower than either TextMate or Sublime Text. When I run Linux virtual machines or other lower-performance systems, I use Sublime Text. But after Ogden failed to update TextMate for 4–5 years, I decided it was time to move on. I haven’t used it in over a decade.