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Nope, at work, we use JetBrains IDEs and for my personal stuff, I'm using Kate.
Seeing the hype wave for VS Code was so bizarre, like millions of people discovered features that were just bog standard in IDEs for a long time. Two colleagues tried to sell it to me and the features they chose to do so with, were the commit GUI and the embedded terminal.
My best guess is that if you weren't a programmer, then you didn't use an IDE and there just wasn't many good editors on Windows. Like, Notepad++ has been there since forever, but it doesn't have that many features. And Sublime has been around for a long time, too, but never made it big.
The problem with Sublime is that it’s a paid one, and not everybody wants to pay for something that is perceived by the community as something that should be free and open source.
It's paid like WinRAR is paid.
Sublime was pretty big before Atom. Atom just had absolutely abysmal startup speeds. Using Atom like an IDE was fine because it stayed open but using it like an editor was awful. Code fixed those problems.
The thing about VSCode is that it was lightweight and modular with the extensions. At least for me.
Lightweight compared to a full-featured IDE, sure, but it starts a whole bloomin' web browser to render a text editor. That is not lightweight at all, compared to Notepad++, Sublime, Kate, Vim, Emacs etc..
And yet, they don't have the same features, which make the comparison pointless