> But Sublime has things Vim can never have. It’s the new hotness and has a more active community than Vim does.
"Things Vim can never have"? Details please. "It's the new hotness"? Yeah, because I choose my software based on its hip factor rather than its suitability to do what I need.
These people are the reason we are going to spend the next twenty years cleaning up after these two-week fad languages/frameworks.
He gave several, did you read the article?
A proper extension mechanism for one.
A GUI that's not just monospaced fonts (or just some stylized buttons triggering functions, as Gvim, MacVim etc).
Ans lots of other things. As a matter of fact, a team even started refactoring Vim itself a few months ago, because they feel the current code doesn't cut it and they want to have a codebase that can be properly extended and get rid of all the legacy cruft.