Just wondering. What advantages does it have over vim? I tried sublime and at least for JavaScript and Go, the plugins weren't better than what I was already using in Vim. And what about the ability to use it in an SSH session?
Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
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#42Just wondering. What advantages does it have over vim? I tried sublime and at least for JavaScript and Go, the plugins weren't better than what I was already using in Vim. And then like you said the ability to use it in an SSH session.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#43Paid. Used for a few years but now leaning towards Code. Feel it was definitely worth it.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#44As soon as I decided that I would use Sublime Text, I happily paid for a license.
It's a great piece of software, and an investment in my productivity.
Well worth the price.
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#45I have. I even spent a fare amount of time contributing to the clang-format plugin for Sublime, but I stopped using it in favor of vim. Mostly due to the laziness of not wanting to port fzf and YCM... also the the fact the majority of the community moved away to Visual Studio Code/Atom.
I don't regret any of the money I spent since it used to be my favorite code editor before I forced myself to learn vim, which definitely isn't for everyone.
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#46I've paid for it. On the principle that if I were to put out a good product in the world, I'd like other people to pay for it too.
That being said, I still use it for a quick syntax aware editor, as a glorified buffer/clipboard or to open big files.
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#47Divide the $70 by the number of hours that you use it, and then think about the value it provides you.
How much per hour?
Still "pretty steep"?
Next question - are you writing software that you hope someone will pay for?
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#48Paid, the software is worth it to me and I feel better having chipped in to keep the devs happy. Wish more free projects had a buy me button.
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#49The problem with the $70 price tag, is it's expensive enough to make me think twice before buying.
I know Sublime has an "unlimited trial", but that can end arbitrarily, and I'd rather not learn a system that might get yanked out from under me at any time.
In a world filled with good text editors, I find $70 too steep. If it were in the $20-$40 range, it would be easier to justify the expense to myself, as well as be more of an "impulse buy".
Some may call me "cheap" - especially for not wanting to pay for a tool I'll use daily. I just find it hard to swallow the price tag, when alternatives exist.
For now, I'm sticking with Atom.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#50I've been using Sublime for many years, and I think I paid for Sublime a about a year in (I think it cost like 30$ back then). I think my current employer also got me a License. However, after the n-th re-install I got too lazy to find my license key and just used the unregistered version. I think I've been running that for years now.
The popup wasn't annoying enough for me to go and find my license key. If you really want to use Sublime but find the 70$ a steep price, it's still completely usable for free if you don't mind a popup once a day.
As an aside, I recently switched to Atom, mostly to stop the programming hipsters from constantly nagging me about how Atom is such a superior editor. With a little configuration I got it to look pretty much exactly like Sublime, and I don't have any issues with performance. If you're looking for a free Sublime alternative, Atom is pretty usable right now.