Yes, VS Code does feel a lot snappier than Atom. I never had problem with installation or updating with Atom, though.
Right now the VS Code plugin is very bare and has hardly any features (syntax highlighting, latex completion, and one command to open a package in a new window). Right now I mostly feel that it is good to have some bare bones support for VS Code. I don’t know whether there is enough man power/interest to ever try to get it into a polished thing that supports more of the VS Code extension points for languages. While I’ll maintain the extension, I have no plans for major development. PRs are welcome, though! Cheers, David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Kelman Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 8:11 PM To: julia-users <[email protected]> Subject: [julia-users] Re: VS code extension VS Code feels much snappier and higher performance to me than Atom, especially on larger files. If you're on Windows especially, the installation and updating experience is just a lot more polished and customizable. The downside is there's been a lot less work on Julia-specific addin integration so far. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 10:36:58 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Gellner wrote: Are there benefits to using this over atom? Why are people moving over? Pros, Cons? On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 3:26:52 PM UTC-7, David Anthoff wrote: Hi all, I’ve created a new github repo for a VS code extension https://github.com/davidanthoff/julia-vscode and it is published here https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=julialang.language-julia. Be5invis will delete the old julia extension from the marketplace because he is no longer maintaining it. At this point my extension has zero additional features over his old one, except that there is a public github repo where in theory people could contribute. Two questions: 1) could we move the github repo under some official julia organization? I know most other editor plugins are under julialang, but I also remember talk about creating something like a juliaeditor org or something like that? In any case, I would like to move the repo to something more official. I’m happy to maintain it for the foreseeable future, so no fear on that front. 2) I used the julia logo. I hope that is ok from a copyright point of view? I took it from the repo for the julia homepage, and that whole repo seemed to be under an MIT license, but just wanted to be sure. And if anyone wants to add stuff to the extension, PRs are welcome! Especially a debug adapter would of course be fantastic. Cheers, David -- David Anthoff University of California, Berkeley http://www.david-anthoff.com
