![]() ![]() Not only that, the open source nature has also led to an extension marketplace that has outgrown SublimeText. VSCode gets contributions from the community for its development, and VSCode gets frequent updates when compared to Sublime. The open source model of VSCode is the main reason for VSCode to become popular than SublimeText. And in some parts of the world, USD 99 can be difficult for most developers to afford. However, the majority of developers will go to the freely available VSCode rather than paying a licensing fee of USD 99. This might not be signficant amount for some users. However, even thogh free to download, you have to pay a licensing fee of USD 99 when you are using SublimeText. VSCode is an editor that you can download for free. I think much of this has been due to nature of VSCode being a free and open source software. SublimeText a small but fast editor is overshadowed by VSCode for a very long time. I continued to edit the file, and then it made me realize how much I miss the snappy, instant feedback that I get from SublimeText that is yet to be reproduced by VSCode or other text editors based on electron. I hit the download button, since SublimeText was just 18 megabytes and I was running a good text editor on a Windows machine in no time. So I cancelled the download and decided to download SublimeText, something I’ve not done for a long time. However, the download was like 100+ megabytes in size and since I was using a public internet connection that would make me wait for several good minutes to complete the download. Recently I had to do some text editing and was in need of a text editor that was better than Notepad, and with muscle memory, I went on and tried to download VSCodium.
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