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I hate to be that guy, but I guess I will, because aesthetics are important to me when choosing a tool i'll be using for several hours a day.

I love how Atom looks. Alongside the nicer extension system, the aesthetics of the default theme are what lured me away from Sublime Text.

I sadly can't say the same for Visual Studio Code, which I hear so many great things about, but can't bring myself to use for more than a few minutes. From what i've been able to tell, the only visual customisation available is choosing the syntax colour theme.



There is support for full color schemes for the entire UI not just the text colors. There is also support for loading TextMate and Sublime themes.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/themes

I personally use a nice dark theme, similar to the one shown in that screenshot. There are also a large range of extensions and VS Code is really fast.


What about changing the appearance of the fairly unpleasant left-most bar (with the code/search/version/debugging switcher), the super in-your-face status bar, etc?


You are right. But when you see how much memory Atom takes and compare that to how lightweight Sublime is, you might want to reconsider.




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