On the other hand, it will immediately become my editor of choice on my Macbook. I'll be making an effort to use it in place of Notepad++ for script editing to see how that goes, but the current lack of FTP support, or any plugin support for that matter, might hold back its usage for a while. MicrosoftĪt this point Code is just a preview of what's to come, but it's already a solid offering. There is also a Task system that lets you define and configure custom build tasks such as firing off, for example, Make, Ant, Gulp, Jake, Rake or MSBuild processes. There is also a fairly capable workspace function to help define your project files and navigate between them. There are keyboard shortcuts galore and a 'Command Pallet', again like Sublime. Once you've coded with these features you'll wonder how you've lived without them for so long, they're part of what makes Visual Studio the best IDE out there.

Many of these features can be added as plugins to Sublime Text, but it's nice to have them neatly tied together in a single package.

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