Been using Sublime Text 3 for years (and I do have a license), and been trying out Atom/VSCode lately. Atom can get real slow, but I feel like the extensions for Atom are of higher quality (linters, TypeScript integration). I think it might have something to do with HTML/CSS/JS vs Python for plugin development.
I was experimenting with new technologies for this project - yes, to get the core functionality sure this would work. In this case, I wanted to make something more... complete. The communication with the device uses websockets, not polling.