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I'm pretty sure I read this exact comment 10 years ago, but "Sublime Text" instead of "VSCode".

• tom_ 3y ago
  And Atom, as well.
  • tom_ 3y ago
    I suppose TextMate was a bit more niche, being OS X only, but at one point it seemed to be everywhere.
    • tom_ 3y ago
      Hmm, while we're counting, what about BRIEF? At one point, widely enough used that Visual Studio even had BRIEF emulation! (When I was starting out in software development, almost all of my colleagues used this. Now just a footnote.)
      • ericvsmith 3y ago
        BRIEF by UnderWare! I loved that editor. I particularly liked the “go to this line number, but use the line number before unsaved edits”. This let you compile a file, get the error log, then start making edits; but the line numbers in the error log were still useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)
• dleslie 3y ago
  VSCode is why Sublime Text, Atom, and others are not as relevant as they once were.
  • BeetleB 3y ago
    And in 10 years, there will be a comment saying "XYZ is why VSCode is not as relevant as it once was." And Emacs will still be around.
    • idispatch 3y ago
      And VSCode will still be around.
      • BeetleB 3y ago
        Just as Sublime Text is still around :-)
      • nequo 3y ago
        Atom is not around. Not 100 percent sure that VSCode will be around. (But I also don’t think that this should hold anyone back who finds VSCode to fit their needs best. There’ll be something else that will take its place.)
  • omaranto 3y ago
    My impression is that all of those are fads, we jsut haven't seen VS Code fade way yet, like the others have. I've used Emacs throughout all of those fads, seems easier than switching editors every few years.