You seem to be acting like I'm an M$ shill out to convert people. In actually someone that uses both, stated my reasons for why, and enquired as to if my assumptions are based on outdated information that I may need to reevaluate in order to remain a competent developer rather than a tribalistic one such as yourself.
> The packages ecosystem is fine and always has been.
That statement is the exact same energy as "because it's cool". Every system is fucked in someway and ignoring those flaws in discussing them just belies denial or naivety.
I’m not sure you work for Microsoft or why you think the package system was anemic but my intent was to swap the variables to answer your questions.
One would never switch away from Sublime Text. It has always had a supportive package system since Sublime Text 2 and if you set it up with proper plugins it is a great IDE.
Where VS Code shined is with native JS support for beginner devs, as you said batteries included. But having already had that setup in Sublime Text (pre-VS Code) there would be no need to migrate editors.
Because it works for me?
You seem to be acting like I'm an M$ shill out to convert people. In actually someone that uses both, stated my reasons for why, and enquired as to if my assumptions are based on outdated information that I may need to reevaluate in order to remain a competent developer rather than a tribalistic one such as yourself.
> The packages ecosystem is fine and always has been.
That statement is the exact same energy as "because it's cool". Every system is fucked in someway and ignoring those flaws in discussing them just belies denial or naivety.