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Comment by HalfwayToDice | Hacker News Reader

I love Visual Studio Code for a strange reason:

I don't actually use it, but by existing and being good, it should force Sublime Text to up its game!

Sublime has served me well for years and I still use it for working with MASSIVE files as all other editors seem to choke on these, but VSCode is leaps and bounds ahead of Sublime Text. A great editor that fell behind a while ago, they didn't step their game up when Atom came out, I doubt VSCode will change anything sadly. Also worth pointing out that VSCode with its debugger, intellisense, addons and other things is ahead of all competitors right now on all fronts.

It's a shame because Sublime is one of the few pieces of software that I use on my computer on a day-to-day basis that isn't a buggy POS (besides the well-written venerable UNIX shell apps).

Firefox? Buggy. Chrome? Buggy. Any other GUI editor? Buggy. Android Studio? Buggy. XCode? Buggy. I could go on all day.

It's written in C++, too, so it's lightning fast. There's no reason UIs should be laggy in 2016 on the very highest-spec Lenovo Thinkpad mobile workstation, but that's the sad reality of anything written in Electron JS (along with zero 4K Hi-DPI support on Linux, so I have to squint to read the microscopic text on Slack, Upwork, Discord, Messenger for Desktop, Whatsie, Skype for Linux Alpha, ...).

That sounds more like a Linux problem than an Electron/JS problem ;-)

Although it's definitely an Electron problem. My few experiences with Atom have been that it is absolutely and unacceptably slow on top hardware.

Then why does every other Linux program I run work just fine with my Hi-DPI display? This isn't anything new, these displays have been around for years now.

True, I wonder if Sublime is ready to be acquired at this stage.

Is there any chance this will ever happen? I've been assuming that sublime has stagnated for at least a year now.

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