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VSCode is here to stay. After eight years it is by far the most popular programming editor and only becoming more so. The sun was already setting on Sublime and
by bitwize 3y ago
VSCode is here to stay. After eight years it is by far the most popular programming editor and only becoming more so. The sun was already setting on Sublime and Atom by this long after their initial release.
- gjvc 3y agocomputing is a pop-culture; that which completely ignores what went before it, and continues to spend much of its time naively re-inventing the wheel
- bitwize 3y agoIndeed, but VSCode is "sticky" in the way those other editors are not. It now has a critical mass of developer interest such that language and framework developers now put out tooling for it first (if it's not the only editor with official support). Other editors will have to make do with third-party tooling from a dwindling pool of contributors, falling farther and farther behind the state of the art.
- gjvc 3y agowill we ever escape javascript in our lifetimes?