- built in debugger with consistent/same usage experience regardless of language you are using it with.

- built in terminal

- git integration

to just name a few on top of my head

Sublime fell a sleep to be honest. I have a paid for license and I never use it anymore.

I'm a spacemacs guy, but the debugger in VS Code is freaking excellent. I've never seen a nicer cross-language debugging experience.

- A major patch every month

- The amazing support on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues

"A major patch every month" is a plus?

Not patch in the sense of fixing a pile of brokenness, rather a rapid, ongoing series of improvements. The ecosystem is evolving fast, a slowly changing tool falls behind.

I guess I am of the camp where I don't want my software changing very often.

Interestingly, VS Code doesn't feel like it changes fast. Most new features are there to use, but not in your face.

I just realized the other day(as someone using Code since a few months after its initial pub release) that I've actually fallen far behind on the new features. I need to go back through the release notes and try out a lot of the new stuff.

I update every month and it never feels intrusive. Although I usually end up updated after any recovery release(path release) would hit haha :D

Then sublime is just perfect for you looking at their release schedule...

I love Sublime (it's my daily driver) but I've found that language support for VS-code is generally much better than Sublime. Node/ES6 support is generally much cleaner. PHP debugging in particular is very painful in Sublime (not-worth-the-hassle level painful), though to be fair PHP debugging is awful-by-default. The VS code plugins for it are pretty great though.