User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-5558012-20141001193618

"At some future point, not yet set in stone, we plan to phase out the classic rich-text editor..."
 * This will be the day I completely disable visual editor. The few times I do use it I prefer the old visual and not the new though the new is more suitable to the new user.

"' - but the classic source editor is not going away."
 * As long as it isn't replaced with the visual editor source mode.