[praveenster]

I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.

[Mahn]

> if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with?

Certainly more than if ST were to be abandoned. In fact the main reason why VSCode and Atom exist is probably Sublime being closed source.

[jorvi]

If you look closely you can see that the VScode guys took a very, very good look at Sublime. They use a .json config with kind-of the same style, they have per folder settings, they've implemented multiple cursors and indent guides. I switched over a month or two back and for me VScode feels like a superset of Sublime, minus some of the snappiness. Hell, if you look at VScode GitHub issues, there's a fair amount that boil down to 'please implement this Sublime feature'.