I've had employers pay for it.
Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#12I paid for it, and I'm happy to have done so even though I mostly use other editors. It fits an important niche, it loads very quickly and handles very large files without trouble.
However, I'm in rooms with dozens of developers (as an instructor) regularly, and I always ask how many of them use sublime text. Many. Then I asked how many of them paid for sublime text. Very very rarely one hand is raised.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#13I'm guessing most of their money comes from businesses who purchase licenses for their developers. I've personally been responsible for four license purchases (my own + 3 companies bought a license for my work computer).
Sublime license follows you around, so new employers don't need to purchase new ones.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#14I have, twice, for what the anecdata is worth. Still switched to vim :O
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#15Paid for it gladly! Would pay again for Sublime 3. $70 is not much at all compared to what I've been paid for the work I do using it!
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#16I got my company to buy it for the whole team. :)
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#17I payed it with a smile. The tech is awesome and the price point for a lifetime license is beyond reasonable. I hope they get the capital to keep working on it.
Doesn't mean I don't still use vim, buts that's a different use case to me.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#18I've had employers pay for it.
First employer was nice enough to get the license in my name.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#19I haven't paid for it but also don't use it.
I paid for a TextMate license years and years ago when it was the hot thing everybody said to just use, but quickly went back to Emacs and mostly swore off the "this year, X is the hot editor everybody should switch to" fads. These days when I need to display some code in a GUI editor (common when doing code-review sessions projected on a screen), I fire up VS Code, which is shaping up to be quite good.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#20I paid for it after I got paid for writing code for the first time. Seemed like the decent thing to do. I was also considering starting a screencast series, and having an editor that wouldn't nag me for a license in the middle of a video seemed important.