I upvoted your comment because your points are accurate (I have both WebStorm and Visual Studio Code open all day every day for my current project) and informat

I upvoted your comment because your points are accurate (I have both WebStorm and Visual Studio Code open all day every day for my current project) and informative, but mostly because what the fuck are adiranlmm and plexicle going on about. From my experience, I would just add that while WebStorm is indeed far more powerful in terms of features that it has, it: - is actually slower even than VS Code for many operations (both of which are, when compared to a native editor like Sublime or TextMate 2, objectively slowww at basic operations like launching and opening windows) - it comes with a shopsack full of shit enabled by default, that most people will need to scale back, adjust, or turn off before getting productive. E.g., on the Mac, all the text editing keyboard shortcuts are wrong, drag and drop doesn't work like any other app, some windows can only be docked or floating windows (wtf!) and can't be put in the background, and all sorts of spurious code-linting and annoying popup suggestions are enabled by default. It's the UI equivalent of somebody shouting all sorts of commands and suggestions at you, while when you first open VSCode its a fairly minimal rectangle of text that you can work with right away and gradually learn the advanced features when you are ready to. So one answer to "why people use this instead of WebStorm" is probably that, especially on Mac, many people's first response to WebStorm is to groan "bleeeccch! yuck!" and close the window and drag the app to the trash. (I did that a few times, too, but in the end the WebStorm the code completion and intelligent navigation was so much better than anything else that I decided to endure the UI atrocities and stick with it.)