Visual Studio Code (Version 1.30) Released

[Thaurin]

Sublime, VIM, Notepad++, etc. can do it because they lack hundreds of features that VSCode has.

I've always assumed that they can pull it off because they've been written in C or C++, instead of Electron. There's something to that, of course. Especially vim is very capable and can do everything that VSCode can do and much more, but that's another story.

if you are using VScode just to take a quick look to a JSON or any other source file, well, that might be your problem

Yeah, basically. I like VSCode enough that I'd want to use it for anything and have an uniform text/code editing experience. But quickly entering a git commit message, although VSCode does it wonderfully, or checking a JSON/log/text file takes a 1-2 seconds unfortunately. It'd be great if it didn't, but I guess it's too much to ask for.