Ha, it's funny that I don't actually have any idea from this comment who you would put your money on. I would take the vim side of that bet directly against sublime, but perhaps not against something-like-sublime.

Vim was released in 1991 and is still incredibly popular today. Compare that with the myriad other editors (I'm looking at you TextMate and Sublime) which come and go. OP's money is on Vim and so is mine.

Textmate was released about a decade ago, so I guess we're measuring the staying power of technologies in quarter centuries now? :)

If you include Vim's direct lineage, which may or may not be fair, you can add another decade and change to that.