[vmarsy]

> The main reason why VSCode is 'winning' the 'editor' wars is because Microsoft is spending tons of money to build a great product. Emacs, vim, and other open source projects can't compete as they don't have nearly the same amount of resources

It doesn't seem to be the main reason, otherwise how can you explain Sublime text popularity prior to VSCode?

[TeMPOraL]

Sublime scratched an itch for a lightweight batteries-included text editor. As such, it competed with vim more than with Emacs. VS Code, on the other hand, tries to be your one-stop shop for code-related things, which makes it play in Emacs's sandbox.