> I don't understand why these electron editors are popular at all. IMHO it's the future of IDE's. After years of using vi and Intellij IDEA, I've switched to

> I don't understand why these electron editors are popular at all. IMHO it's the future of IDE's. After years of using vi and Intellij IDEA, I've switched to VS code (which is electron based) and never looked back. I find it as snappy as vi or sublime. I feel more productive because of all the plugins. For e.g. the fantastic https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens Extending it is really easy using the language server protocol http://langserver.org/ http://langserver.org/ . Our team spent very little effort to build a plugin for our open source project https://github.com/getgauge/gauge-vscode https://github.com/getgauge/gauge-vscode Electron editors are successful because it's hackable and cross-platform allowing the community to extend and add an impressive list of plugins.