Torrenting involves uploading data, which is considered distributing content you don't own. So I think torrenting copyrighted content is illegal most places. A regular http download might be legal though more places.

VS Code is very good for what it is but there are still some telltale web app cracks and gaps scattered about, and of course its resource usage is considerably higher than Sublime's (I'm seeing ~240MB RAM usage on a fresh install with no documents open). I suspect that until these two factors are fixed there will still be those who prefer Sublime.

I've tried firing up VSCode in a VM and found it unusably slow, whereas Sublime is fine.

What OS are you using that has no native VS code support?

He could also be _working_ in a VM, when his host OS supports it but he's not using the host at the time.

Plenty of time as long as VSCode is running on Electron.

VSCode is better in some ways for a couple languages that it has nice debuggers for. Otherwise Sublime has a lot on it.

Sublime is faster and is crazy polished. It also has a larger plugin ecosystem.

"Better" if you don't care for performance. Or memory usage. Or GC pauses.

For the time being, nothing beats the polish that went into Sublime Text.

> which is better and free

Please backup claims with evidence.

Well, you got one of the three right.