I even used it for notetaking because it opened faster than vscode but then that was fixed. Good stuff but hard to avoid a solid ecosystem that is constantly evolving with the backing of big companies. kinda sad actually.
I was really a skeptic for years, but Microsoft really threw money at this until it won.
So if VScode does go the way of Windows, then I'll "just" go back to another editor with vi bindings.
(yes yes, I remember some of my emacs bindings, wrote a thesis in latex on emacs, and learnt lisp as a result, but I realised that vi was more "portable")
Example?
And although I appreciate that Sublime is supposed to be a simple editor, not an IDE, it wouldn't hurt to add more IDE-like features. It's just too basic for development in 2023. Sublime has a really clean, performant, cross platform UI, why not take that and build the foundations of something more viable?
The only significant thing that I think VSCode has over Sublime is the Live sharing stuff.
Sublime used far fewer resources yes, but as others have said the plugins just weren't the same. It also felt like a huge premium to pay just to take notes.
Tried Obsidian a few months ago, and it's roughly on par with VSC but much better geared towards my notes.
I think that argument is overblown. People don't LIKE seeing the resource bloat, but it has almost zero impact on today's systems. Maybe back when I was using a WD Fireball HDD for swap space, sure...