One of the biggest advantages that I know of is that VSC has a very good NodeJS debugger for Javascript and Typescript[1]. Having the debugger integrated into the editor is huge improvement over Node Inspector. Last time I tried Atom&#x27;s debuggers, they were not very good.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;editor&#x2F;debugging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;editor&#x2F;debugging</a>