In that aspect, it does a very solid job and would be a great tool for me. Sublime was more of a straightforward text editor, to begin with. The fact is, nobody does extensions like VSCode. Atom and Sublime do offer some cool tricks up their sleeve, but would I consider them superior to VSCode? No. Though they all have their individual use cases and appeal, I’m grouping all these for comparison because I find both of them to be the most similar to VSCode from the options available. (I can imagine some VSCode haters out there reading through past sections and simultaneously yelling at their screen “Atom and Sublime!” don’t worry, I hear you all spiritually.) Yet, there are multiple other options that fit both criteria, namely Atom and Sublime Text. I’ve already covered two reasons why VSCode is as successful as it is today: it hits the sweet spot between a text editor and IDE, and it has all the extensions you’ll ever need. Vim was the first to go, opening the file instantly and sipping an unnoticeable portion of my 8GB RAM. To demonstrate my point, I loaded up a python discord bot I scripted a few months ago on Vim, P圜harm, and VSCode, and non-scientifically tested resource usage and launch speed. Well, what about “the most popular development environment?” Right smack at the middle. Stuff like Vim and Nano takes less than a second to open in the terminal (granted you’re using them without any plugins), while I can solve a Rubik’s cube before P圜harm finally opens and finishes indexing project files. Text editors and IDEs are polar opposites in this aspect.
Take speed and resource usage for example. Despite the irony, this makes it seem more of a compelling choice than others. This is deliberate: from how you see it, VSCode is both or neither any of them. Realize how I had referred VSCode earlier in this article as a “development environment,” not as an IDE nor text editor.
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