Comment by Steven Ventimiglia on "Integrated Git Terminal for Atom"

Steven Ventimiglia

Creative Technologist & Sr. Front-End Developer

Sep 27, 2018

Unfortunately, this is why I left Atom and went to VS Code. There was a terminal package, and it was great. (github.com/jeremyramin/terminal-plus/issues) But, then they applied a gamechanging "upgrade", and it basically forced all packages to be updated as well. The result being abandonment, on many popular ones.

There were a few forks, but they all had the same issues of not working well cross-platform. Cursors disappearing/appearing in the wrong locations, console not loading, etc.

The last one I used was platformio-atom-terminal, which I could no longer find on Github.

Go with VS Code. It's much better, imo - and I'm a hard guy to convice when it comes to switching add-on toolsets.

VS Code extensions seem much more reliable, and the editor itself is impressive.

Emmanuel

Sep 27, 2018

Thanks. I like Atom, but that integrated git terminal changes things for me. I wish there was something like that for Atom, it's such an awesome editor.

Yeah. And, at one point I tried and disliked VS Code. But man, it's changed for the better and quite honestly - in Atom's current condition, when the packages are highly rated and have the majority of the downloads - it was pre-update before those packages were broken.

VS Code has "extensions", and even though I've downloaded a few and went, "meh...", none of them have ever been broken. You can split/resize the editor section(s) in many ways, split or move the terminal section to a right hand column, etc. But the real winner to me are the settings. From general to workspace to user... it's ridiculously customizable, down to each extension, what loads when, etc.

For example, Live Server can assign different ports to each workspace. Live project sharing is also nifty (which, in fairness, I think Atom may have added this after I stopped using it.)

However, when all is said and done - Microsoft now owns Github, Atom was created by Github, and VS Code is what most devs are moving to. Hashnode was the reason I finally tried out VS Code for a second time, and there's no reason at all to turn back.

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