I also used to feel saddened by VSCode's rise. Thinking that Microsoft had essentially ripped off sublime and made an inferior version of the product I loved. I resisted VSCode for a long time.

And then, I ran both VSCode and sublime... But now, I just run VSCode. Sublime is better at getting out of my way, but VSCode is perhaps the perfect IDE. With the best of both worlds of what sublime offered, and what heavier IDEs offered.

There are lots of things better about sublime, but VSCode has better integration with _everything_, making it the version of sublime I always wanted.

Before I switched to VSCode, I spent a few evenings trying to get Omnisharp to work in sublime. I got it working, and the UI was kinda bad. I gave up, and switched to VSCode.

It's really the extension API, and the community plugins for VSCode, and of course Microsoft direct support for c++/c#/everything else.

VSCode is going to take over all IDEs. I'm certain of it. It's so good.

Sublime is cleaner, and there will always be a place for that (vim, anyone?), but the plugin ecosystem for VSCode is reaching that critical mass point.

Our developer experience for building and debugging c++ in VSCode is unmatched. Not to mention the docker integration, and the ease at which custom tasks can be built.