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What does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based alternatives.

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The out-of-box "IDE" features it provides (esp. for working with JS/TS projects) is amazing. I still struggle to reproduce that experience with various plugins on Sublime.

Thats pretty much it for me. Everyone keeps saying that the performance issue is a myth, but I still experience a very noticeable lag with VSCode, and that keeps me from using it as my main editor.

Sometimes, less is more. I completely agree that if you do need IDE-like features, then Sublime is most likely not for you, and any plugin trying to replicate those features falls pretty flat. But if you're doing simple file editing, I much prefer Sublime Text as it's faster and the UI much cleaner, not bloated with hundreds of buttons and options and huge context menus for things I'll never need.

A lot of IDEs have silly limitations about creating projects or files. I like being able to open a blank scratch file on Sublime, set the syntax mode if I need to, and start editing text right away. The half a second to open is also amazing.

I've tried them, you're not missing anything unless you like typing lag, appalling scrolling performance, syntax highlighting that happens several seconds after you've opened a file etc. etc.

Sublime is nowhere in terms of add-ons / language integration compare to VScode, without that it's pretty much useless. Sublime is just a better looking Notepad++

In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on extensive IDE support.

Oh sure it's useless. I only use it for all my work, but okay. Nice opinion.

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