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Re: Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

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Post by mastazi » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 3:49 AM UTC

bjz_ wrote: post #46

mastazi wrote: post #29

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VS Code is great, Atom too but I wish it was less buggy. Regarding ST, I used to feel the same but lately I have seen more releases and it seems that development is now moving again. Also, I'm really struggling to find any aspect where ST "lags behind", I pretty much seem to get all the same goodies that I get in Atom and VS Code.

VS Code seems much snappier than Atom, as someone who uses both. And the Rust extension is much better. Switching between the different key-bindings is a pain though - I wish VS Code used ST bindings, but I'm guessing they went for consistency with VS?

> but I'm guessing they went for consistency with VS?

Yes you are right, although in some cases they also support the "ST-style" shortcuts, e.g. I just realised that I can do block selection with ctrl-alt

Re: Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

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Post by dvirsky » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 6:13 AM UTC

throwaway6436 wrote: post #125

dvirsky wrote: post #98

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Jetbrains seem to be making quite a lot of money from the IDEA series. Shill, really? I have nothing against Sublime charging money, the only reason I'm not buying it is that it's not a good enough editor (for me!). What I'm saying is that if he opens at least some of Sublime it might help make it a better editor and advance faster with the help of a community. It certainly beats Sublime becoming irrelevant and dying…

ST becoming open-source is one thing, making it freemium another. I was talking about the latter. Does freemium really work at all for anyone? Gets you new users quickly but then 1 in 10,000 converts. This works for established companies as they can weather the freeloaders with piles of cash from other parts of the business. Or in the case of VC-backed companies, from the money fountain (better not ask Spotify about…

For IDEs there's a clear path here - for a company, even a small startup, BTW Sublime are more or less Freemium right now, even worse - you don't HAVE to pay, you just get those annoying messages. It's practically a donation model right now.

Re: Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

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Post by shurcooL » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 4:38 AM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #130

shurcooL wrote: post #33

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As a ST3 user, both Atom and VSC have superior git integration built in, no plugins needed. That's really the only/main thing I miss.

Atom has git integration built-in? I couldn't find it when I tried it a few months ago (and I was shocked, considering it's sponsored by GitHub).

Yes. When you open a directory that is a git repository, the files in the sidebar will have different color if they're modified, new, etc. When viewing actual files, edited/new/deletes lines will also have markers in the gutter.

Re: Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

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Post by untoreh » Sun, Jun 05, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

mstade wrote: post #91

mstade wrote: post #88

I'm not sure what all the missed-the-race type comments are all about – what does this even mean? ST3 is a solid editor with what I consider a very healthy plugin eco system. I don't think there's a single feature I've missed that so many seem to think are crucial to any reasonable development (web or otherwise) and its speed and accuracy is what keeps me as a customer. (Multi-file search and replace is a breeze, eve…

I forget to mention the fact that ST has saved my ass more than once by always keeping buffers persisted. This alone paid the price of admission several times over in not having to redo work when I've been a klutz.

in comparison both vscode and atom have crap statufulness, in my case they both crash every half hour and when you reopen them everything is gone, atom right now (1.7.3/4) has a bug that makes the editor crash some times when you save files, electron is all fun for customization but damn if it is unstable. Sublime been rocksolid no crash and 100% stateful.

Re: Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

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Post by mstade » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 8:27 AM UTC

untoreh wrote: post #134

mstade wrote: post #91

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I forget to mention the fact that ST has saved my ass more than once by always keeping buffers persisted. This alone paid the price of admission several times over in not having to redo work when I've been a klutz.

in comparison both vscode and atom have crap statufulness, in my case they both crash every half hour and when you reopen them everything is gone, atom right now (1.7.3/4) has a bug that makes the editor crash some times when you save files, electron is all fun for customization but damn if it is unstable. Sublime been rocksolid no crash and 100% stateful.

I can't speak for the others because I have no experience, but definitely echo your Sublime experience. Even when it has crashed, and the only times I can recall have been on Windows, it's always kept state so not once have I lost work. This feature alone, as I mentioned, is worth the price of admission. It's a life saver.