There's a sweetness to that sentiment, but I think it's misplaced. I mean, Jon Skinner has technically been working on this thing for over a decade. It's this guy and a couple other people polishing it for years; saying it's like Microsoft is like calling git-annex just another Dropbox.
And don't forget: this is a product and a business. If someone comes up to eat your lunch, you can roll over and die or adapt and improve. We've come a bit full circle in the Complaints Department here: when Atom was first coming out, a vocal lot decried it was just a Sublime Text rip-off picking on the little guy. Turns out it's a pretty good editor! Sublime's got a few updates and it's just perfunctorily playing catch-up? Well, I liked it before, and now it's better, so... I think that's pretty good.
I'll have to disagree with this, the VS Code team has made me reconsider electron as a desktop platform. Compared to atom, it's far snapier, and loads much quicker. I think you're giving the new Microsfot short shrift.
When I said "better", I should have said merely that Sublime's improved, not as a qualitative statement for comparison to others :)
I pretty strictly follow the idea that you pick something that works for you and use it. I happen to be familiar with Sublime, but man, I really like IntelliSense when I'm in SSMS (or when I did Excel VBA hacking - don't judge me!). Honestly, until Sublime Text 2's vast improvement in startup times it wasn't my go-to editor, and oddly it's what kept me off Atom the few times I gave it a cursory whirl (my previous alternative? Notepad++). I have zero doubt Atom will eventually be just as snappy - heck it may even be now; I haven't checked.
That all said, I think the VS Code team is going to eat everyone's lunch within the next few years if no one watches them and keeps up. And my money is everyone does try to keep up and we're left with a new browser war situation where we have lots of ultrahigh quality options!
And don't forget: this is a product and a business. If someone comes up to eat your lunch, you can roll over and die or adapt and improve. We've come a bit full circle in the Complaints Department here: when Atom was first coming out, a vocal lot decried it was just a Sublime Text rip-off picking on the little guy. Turns out it's a pretty good editor! Sublime's got a few updates and it's just perfunctorily playing catch-up? Well, I liked it before, and now it's better, so... I think that's pretty good.