>1) As an editor it’s novel for his high performance across so many platforms.
Sublime Text is one of many cross-platform text editors with superior performance than that of VS Code.
>2) As a plug-in platform with a simple marketplace it’s the first time I’ve seen this work well across many types of dev groups. “Easy enough” for html designers, and data scientists as well as traditional programmers. Plug-ins exist for other tools, but not as easily put together as this.
This existed before VS Code. Perhaps an argument can be made with respect to the UI of such a repository, but the existence of this concept has been around for a while.
>3) The release schedule is so rapid. At least monthly releases with new features with lots of community ideas realized.
This isn't innovative. This is having a lot of money, thus resources, to have such a release cadence.
I can see the argument where VS Code is better suited for some people but innovative it is not (and that's OK).
The Language Server Protocol alone, which was invented for VS Code, was innovative enough that it's now being used by other major editors and IDEs.
Sure you might get slightly better performance with some other program but you won't get all the features or quality of VS Code with that (and for free).
Sublime Text is one of many cross-platform text editors with superior performance than that of VS Code.
>2) As a plug-in platform with a simple marketplace it’s the first time I’ve seen this work well across many types of dev groups. “Easy enough” for html designers, and data scientists as well as traditional programmers. Plug-ins exist for other tools, but not as easily put together as this.
This existed before VS Code. Perhaps an argument can be made with respect to the UI of such a repository, but the existence of this concept has been around for a while.
>3) The release schedule is so rapid. At least monthly releases with new features with lots of community ideas realized.
This isn't innovative. This is having a lot of money, thus resources, to have such a release cadence.
I can see the argument where VS Code is better suited for some people but innovative it is not (and that's OK).