I understand why people move on from the (now indirectly Microsoft-owned) Atom editor to Microsoft's original answer to it: Visual Studio Code is less slow (not really faster), it has an active and vocal community and its plug-in repository is quite similar to Vim's. But under the hood, both use the broken Electron framework, so both are facing the same security implications and are far from native performance. Try editing a really large file in them. Good luck.
I’m not sure I can justify paying the cost for Sublime Text
Honestly, Sublime Text (from beta 2 up to version 3 when the key stopped working) is the only text editor which I ever felt was worth being paid (and it probably still is if you need an almost-IDE, both Atom and Visual Studio Code take much inspiration from it for a good reason). I did and it made me rather happy for a good couple of years. :-)
Did you just call me uncool?
I understand why people move on from the (now indirectly Microsoft-owned) Atom editor to Microsoft's original answer to it: Visual Studio Code is less slow (not really faster), it has an active and vocal community and its plug-in repository is quite similar to Vim's. But under the hood, both use the broken Electron framework, so both are facing the same security implications and are far from native performance. Try editing a really large file in them. Good luck.
Honestly, Sublime Text (from beta 2 up to version 3 when the key stopped working) is the only text editor which I ever felt was worth being paid (and it probably still is if you need an almost-IDE, both Atom and Visual Studio Code take much inspiration from it for a good reason). I did and it made me rather happy for a good couple of years. :-)
Very true, I use vscode cos that's what everyone I work with uses but I still find myself going back to sublime
Why would you care?
well cos of live share and other things