{"id":30371,"date":"2020-10-07T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30371"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:59:43","slug":"the-era-of-visual-studio-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/the-era-of-visual-studio-code\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era of Visual Studio Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roben Kleene<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Text editors, on the other hand, are a software category where the most popular options are not the oldest. According to the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey<\/a>, Sublime Text<\/a> was the most popular text editor available on the Mac from 2015–2017. Sublime Text was released in 2008, a sprightly youth compared to Excel and Illustrator. Text editors have been a category with a lot of movement: In the last 20 years, TextMate, Sublime Text, and Atom have all been the text editor with the most momentum. For big complicated desktop software, has any other category ever had so much movement?<\/p>

I believe the era of new text editors emerging and quickly becoming popular has now ended with Visual Studio Code<\/a>. VS Code has reached unprecedented levels of popularity and refinement, laying a foundation that could mean decades of market dominance.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

With VS Code, the extension-based text editor has seemingly reached its final form. Ever since TextMate, extensions have increased in prominence and capabilities, and with VS Code, that progression appears to have culminated. There just isn’t anywhere else to go. Correspondingly, there isn’t a way a new text editor can leapfrog VS Code the same way previous text editors have been leapfrogging each other by improving extensions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

VS Code certainly has lots of features and extensions, but I remain quite happy with BBEdit and its Mac interface.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n