> You install extensions from the internet which have full access to your computer This is an issue in almost every other editor that has plugins! Vim, Emacs,

> You install extensions from the internet which have full access to your computer This is an issue in almost every other editor that has plugins! Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, etc have widely used automatic plugin installation tools. You can manually download and install plugins if you're worried about a 3rd party issuing malicious automatic updates.