VSCode doesn't even change the way code was written on Mac or Windows.
Let me turn the question around. What does VSCode do that Sublime, Atom, Emacs and Vim doesn't? Nothing.
That is not to say that VSCode is bad. It's a decent editor. But the only reason I found Atom and VSCode to be interesting at all, was that way more people know Javascript than ELisp or VimScript, and so I figuere that the quality and quantity of plugins will be better on VSCode or Atom in time compared to the other two editors.
The switch to Atom was actually pretty simple. Many Emacs shortcuts still worked, and setting up a linter and multiple cursors was easy.
Another thing is that there are GUI versions of both Vim and Emacs. You don't, however, have a console version of VSCode, which means you can't use it over SSH. This isn't that big of a deal for some people (maybe even most), but for sysadmins logging in to a server to do some work, access to their editor of choice would be great.
The problem with your statement, and why you receive downvotes, is that you reveal that you really don't know what you're talking about.
>VSCode doesn't even change the way code was written on Mac or Windows.
That's probably because those two platforms have already had superior tools for a long time. On Linux, vim reigns supreme. So it is easier to revolutionize code editing on Linux
All three platforms have had access to Vim, Emacs, LightTable and Sublime. VSCode brings nothing new to the table other than Javascript as a plugin-language.
The fact that you think that VSCode is revolutionary compared to vim, only displays your ignorance. Vim can do the exact same things VSCode can, and it has been able to do so for quite a bit longer.
Let me turn the question around. What does VSCode do that Sublime, Atom, Emacs and Vim doesn't? Nothing.
That is not to say that VSCode is bad. It's a decent editor. But the only reason I found Atom and VSCode to be interesting at all, was that way more people know Javascript than ELisp or VimScript, and so I figuere that the quality and quantity of plugins will be better on VSCode or Atom in time compared to the other two editors.
The switch to Atom was actually pretty simple. Many Emacs shortcuts still worked, and setting up a linter and multiple cursors was easy.
Another thing is that there are GUI versions of both Vim and Emacs. You don't, however, have a console version of VSCode, which means you can't use it over SSH. This isn't that big of a deal for some people (maybe even most), but for sysadmins logging in to a server to do some work, access to their editor of choice would be great.
The problem with your statement, and why you receive downvotes, is that you reveal that you really don't know what you're talking about.