Which Code Editor do you prefer?

There is no wrong answer. Which ever tool works best for your coding style is key.

Atom.io seems to be left off of here. I would vote for that one.

Yeah, Atom is a good one. I literally forgot about it. That and surveys only allow 4 choices.

Webstorm and Dreamweaver are code IDEs. There is a huge difference. + where is Atom?

Yes, there is a huge difference but there are people who still use them which is why I'm asking. I have team members who use DW because they've used since the Macromedia days. I have team members who use Webstorm because someone told them it was cool.

@xirclebox WebStorm is not cool. If I wanted to go for coolness, I would go with Atom but I use WebStorm (and most people at Google web department do too) because it has many advanced features that come amazingly handy for huge projects and running them. If it's just a small site, I would go with Sublime or Atom but for advanced systems it's one of the JetBrains family depending on the platform and the languages they are working with

Several of our Java Devs use WebStorm because they "Hate" Eclipse. The majority of our front-end team uses Brackets or Sublime since the lion share of our work is HTML, JS, and CSS. We had one of our newer team members transition from Dreamweaver to Brackets this morning which made many of us cheer.

I used Sublime for a long time. After Githubs "atom" came out I started to use it parallel with sublime. (In the early days atom ha many bugs). After some time I and the rest of the office I work switched from sublime to atom.

Some Reasons: - Active development - Nice Pluginsystem - Support for many languages, when your language is not supported I am sure there is a plugin - We just like it better ;)

Oh, man, what a coincidence. This happens the same day, Quora told me that I'm the top writer in the "Text Editors" category. (I know, shameless self-promotion inc. ;) )

OK, seriously now, there was a similar question a while ago, so I will just copy-paste my answer:

I've tried several editors/IDEs - Sublime Text 2/3, Brackets, Notepad++(don't ask), Atom, Komodo IDE, but currently my main editor is Jetbrains WebStorm. It's all you can ask from a JavaScript/Front-End Development IDE, even a little more:

Great Code Completion
Smart Navigation between methods, functions and variables
Code quality analysis
Configurable code styles
Multilines and multi-selection
One of the best Client-Side JavaScript and Node.js debuggers
Integrated unit-testing with Mocha and Karma
Spy-js - tracing and identifying any possible bottlenecks
Tools integration - Gulp, Grunt, npm, Bower, JSHint, ESHint, Cordova, build-in terminal
Build-in VCS - git, SVN, Mercurial with awesome GitHub integrations and history viewer
Creation of user-defined templates and snippets
TypeScript compiler
Sass, Less, and SCSS transpilers

That taken, there are some cons though - it's somehow ugly, compared to other editors, it's a paid product, but there are is a discount for startups(50% off) and even more - it's free if you are a student or an Open Source contributor. Another thing worth mentioning is that sometimes Webstorm can become slow and clunky.

For some quick edits I'm using Sublime Text, because well.... it's super fast!

P.S. For some time now I've been messing with Visual Studio Code and it's great so far. Some of the features - fast, git integration, fast, refactoring, fast, debugging, fast, great language support, fast, one of the best autocompletes, autosave, build in task runners, user customization. Oh, did I mention how blazing fast it is! :)

P.S* I feel like an editor whore now...

Like @fazlerocks wrote, Visual Studio Code has progressed really fast the last couple of months. The team is adding new features like extensions, better ES6 support, JSX Support, File Picker improvements, extensions, etc. The editor was even open-sourced last month. More and more friends and colleagues are moving to VSCode and I'm in a great dilemma now - sticking with WebStorm or switching to VSCode.

Extensions for VSCode should be out really soon (I thought they were already), because they are already available if you are using the Insiders builds.

Actually, Microsoft introduced extension support in VSCode's November release with a Visual Studio Code Marketplace(web interface for their extensions). At the time of writing the original answer, VSCode extensions weren't implemented yet. I've removed that exact sentence to avoid further confusion. :)

I think there's no single right answer... and there's not even a single answer: my favorite editor usually depends on the component I'm working on, and it's very common that I have opened at the same time Atom, VS Code and IntelliJIdea (the 3 I use the most). If I have to look at some CSS edition, Brackets is great but I really don't do it very often.

VSCode is great for Typescript, IntellijIdea is great for Scala, and Atom is really nice for so many languages that's it's my usual sandbox ;-)

(And that's only for web-related code editor, RStudio is my other sandbox as soon as I have anything maths/stats related to do)

Ha! I forgot all about Atom. I have it installed on my machine too. It's cool but I never got into the habit of using it on a regular basis. I like to use Brackets mainly. It's light weight and works well with front-end dev.

I moved from WebStorm to Visual Studio Editor recently. So far I am really impressed with it. Here are a few things I like about it:

Lightweight
Easy Git Integration
JSX support out of the box
Powerful Debugging Feature
Powerful and fast complete project search
Powerful Autosuggestion for CSS properties
Split screen : upto 3 screens. Very useful if you are working on large monitors.

I've heard a few people say some good things about the latest Visual Studio. I have yet to try it out though.

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