> Vim and Emacs are still superior I think the parent was talking about modern text editors such as Sublime, Atom, Brackets etc.; Vim and Emacs are completely

> Vim and Emacs are still superior I think the parent was talking about modern text editors such as Sublime, Atom, Brackets etc.; Vim and Emacs are completely different beasts (note: I love both). Within the category of modern text editors, VS Code is in my opinion revolutionary in several ways - I will give you three examples The first feature that I find "disruptive" is the way VS Code offers a standardised interface for debuggers, hence debugger plugins are much easier to create - and you can see that VS Code already has debugger plugins available for many languages: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode/Debuggers?sortBy=Downloads https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode/Debuggers?sortBy... the availability of such plugins for Atom and Sublime Text is not nearly as good. The second aspect where VS Code changed the game is the clever way it leverages Electron (the framework it's made with, Atom is made with Electron too) - while creating clever workarounds to known Electron bugs - e.g. VS Code, unlike Atom, does not suffer from this bug https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10720 https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10720 The third aspect is the git integration - since Atom is sponsored by Github, you would think it has the best git integration out there - but VS Code has gone the extra mile by giving you a great user-friendly UI interface for staging and committing (yeah, I know, anything more complicated than git add -A requires the command line - the fact is that nearly 50% of all the git commands I type are git add -A, LOL). PPS I totally agree with you about the importance of tooling. But e.g. if you have a debugger that does not have an interface to your editor it becomes hard to set breakpoints. So the editor needs to integrate with your tools and VS Code is great at that.