VS Code is not fit for professional software development. JetBrains products are far and away superior. Sublime Text is nice as a notepad, extended clipboard, and quick file editor.

I have been through this myself - and after trying out a lot of stuff, I finally settled for Ecode. Very lightweight and extremely fast.

Not perfect but not laggy and memory hungry like a lot of editors these days.

NOTE: I am not associated with this project or its founders in anyway.

https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode

I've never stopped using Sublime Text. There's no reason. It does everything and also nothing (in all the right ways). Welcome back

Last time I used Sublime text with package control, the plugins created always after updates a new tab with changelog and some with textads.

Pure sublime text is better, but still just a better notepad and no ide.

Check out sublime merge, too. All the goodies from sublime text for a git frontend!

It's still all I use. You know it's good because you can use it to crack itself

So what do you use for debugging?