I've been using Visual Studio Code for a project recently. I told myself I would give it a try as I get pretty annoyed by the Sublime prompts and general wonkiness of the plugins.
It's not a real competitor by any means. I don't need git integration or a debugger in my IDE, these are wasted features for web dev (the best debugger is the browser because that's where the code actually runs...). I dislike how the "search across project" works - sublime presents search results on a huge screen, but Code is confined to the side bar, really difficult to find what you're looking for given ~250px of space. Code's code highlighting is very bare, it doesn't highlight enough for me, I have to read the code too much. And Code wants me to Tweet my feedback? They actually built twitter into an IDE? Wtf
It's just a typical Microsoft product; too little too late, and nothing special.
For your use case perhaps, debuggers are invaluable if you are using a backend language that isn't javascript, XDebug with Intellij is outstanding for those rare times you really need a proper debugger.
And I get that, in which case the developer would be better served to use one of those IDEs. Sublime text doesn't have a debugger and it's not really needed because of the type of work you would do in it. I wouldn't write Java or C# in sublime, why would I do that in Code?
To my point, Code is just a weird mish-mash of features. Is it an advanced text editor like sublime or is it an IDE? In either case, it's bad at both.
It's not a real competitor by any means. I don't need git integration or a debugger in my IDE, these are wasted features for web dev (the best debugger is the browser because that's where the code actually runs...). I dislike how the "search across project" works - sublime presents search results on a huge screen, but Code is confined to the side bar, really difficult to find what you're looking for given ~250px of space. Code's code highlighting is very bare, it doesn't highlight enough for me, I have to read the code too much. And Code wants me to Tweet my feedback? They actually built twitter into an IDE? Wtf
It's just a typical Microsoft product; too little too late, and nothing special.