[tehaugmenter]

All this spotlight on VS Code and no mention of Sublime Text? I view Sublime Text (even though there is a license fee) as more emacs like than VS Code. I side with others to say its no where near Emacs because Emacs is Emacs. My most cherished Sublime Text plugins began as an Emacs extension (xiki). So I would say Emacs is important to the ecosystem but there's no way Product X will be an Emacs of the 21st century.

[ry_ry]

I've always been a huge fan of sublime, i use it daily as a text editor. It's largely a visual clipboard for me.

However as a development environment its lacking. The interface for installing and configuring plugins is needlessly arcane, and whilst it's fast I find myself defaulting to vscode for pure productivity reasons. I don't even particularly like vscode - largely electron snobbishness tbh - but it's the best to for my particular job (frontend dweeb for a well known site with a very modern stack)

I've used intellij, visual studio, vscode, sublime and dozens of other apps extensively professionally as my day to day (eclipse and atom were low points) and all have their merits but as a fast, easy, cohesive environment that is easily setup a combination of zsh and vscode is absolutely my goto the days.

Edit. People calling vscode bloated does amuse me though. it's not exactly vim but it's a million miles away from its bigger brother.