I’m evaluating Visual Studio Code by the way… Takes some getting used to, not in the least of which to learn to click on the correct icon in the dock 
. But it’s a nice editor. They clearly have their own take on things that’s rather unique from other more traditional IDEs. I’m also using it at work as of last week (instead of the original Visual Studio), just to get a bit more experience with it.
Some things I like:
It is nice and responsive, boots up quick and many things update instantly such as search results when I change files on the OS. It also looks good and I found a nice broken-white colour scheme which is easy on my eyes (Solarized Light).
The multi-cursor works well too (I wish I could alt-click on selection highlights to add it to the selection, ctrl-d does something like it but not quite), Eclipse’s implementation of that is just “not quite”. The miniature code map in the scroll bar is also nice, something I’m used to from its big brother, and although Eclipse has something similar it again doesn’t quite work there.
I also feel like it’ll also be easier for me to extend with some of my own tooling.
Some things I don’t like so much:
In some ways it is very command line-ey, starting commands from a text command line. It would’ve been nicer if it was a bit more menu dialog-driven, although over time I will probably get more used to it as I memorize things. Similarly the settings can be hard to navigate, it being just a list of options rather than something organized somewhat logically in panels.
The outline shares space with the file explorer in the sidebar, and when I have both opened at the same time both of them get rather small and aren’t comfortable to use. I wish I could separate it out and dock it to the right side of the screen. Similar story for Open Editors, but that seems uselessly repeating the tabs so I just keep it closed. In general it’s just quite rigid in its layout.
The suggestions sometimes get in my way, auto-completing something I didn’t intend. I hope I’ll just get used to it and learn how to avoid it doing that by not pressing enter when it pops up a suggestion or something.
The white space characters can only be either shown or not shown. I had configured Eclipse so that it only showed trailing white space, leading spaces and in-between tabs. This reduced visual noise while showing me the ones I want to know about.
Things that are just different:
Not being bound to a workspace that needs to be configured makes it a little quicker to set up a new project or open some source code that I downloaded, although it doesn’t really change much in the end. I end up working a little more from the Mac’s own Finder explorer and with multiple windows, it’s different but not necessarily bad.
