For me the biggest advantage of Visual Studio Code is support for Language Server Protocol [0] that makes the editor a lightweight IDE. If I'm using statically

For me the biggest advantage of Visual Studio Code is support for Language Server Protocol [0] that makes the editor a lightweight IDE. If I'm using statically typed languages the level of support from the editor easily outweighs longer startup time. Sublime is better when working with structureless files (plain text logs etc.). [0]: http://langserver.org/ http://langserver.org/