I paid for it gladly and most developers I know have as well.
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?
#52I paid for it and use it everyday. One of the reasons is that it's multi platform and works very well on, at least, Mac and Linux.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#53I've been using Sublime Text (TextMate before that) professionally for several years now. I gladly paid those $70 and it's certainly paid off. Just as with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA (of which I'm a happy customer as well) that boost your productivity I never understood that petty kind of mulling over paying for a reasonably priced software product that makes your professional life easier.
Developer time is expensive. If there's a tool that allows you to make better use of that time buying such a tool is no-brainer. I also never understood why the same enterprise-sized companies that often frivolously spend millions on licences for database and application servers are extremely stingy when it comes to software that makes the people that work for them more productive.
Finally, if a particular piece of software does make you more productive as a software developer and you then don't pay for it but just keep using it while occasionally cancelling the nag dialog that's at least a tad bit unethical and unprofessional. You'd expect your customers or your employer to pay you for your work as well, wouldn't you?
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#54really, is $70 for a productivity tool you use for most of the day, every day, "pretty steep"? many developers make that in a hour. i paid for it.
It's not steep in the value it provides, or the amount I've used it. But it's steep enough that it's more than I often pay for one thing. It's steep enough to make me come up with some excuse -
"well, it's optional..."
"I can't afford it this month, maybe later"
"It's good, but it's not $70 better than other text editors"
"I'm mostly using it for work, so I'm not going to pay for it out of my own pocket" (and the company isn't going to pay for the above reasons)
"It's not open source, and I don't want to contribute to proprietary software" etc...
I think if it was a limited free trial, the price was cheaper, or if they had some sort of subscription model, they'd probably get more money from people. Personally, I put off paying for it when I was poor and unemployed in the past, and now Atom is a decent open source alternative, so I tend to use that.
Until Atom existed, if you'd given me Sublime for a month, then told me to pay up or go back to using Scite/Gedit/Notepad++, or learning Vim, I'd have dropped the money on it in a heartbeat
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#55I'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.
Depends on the employer, my big co handles it opaquely so I'd have to get a new one at a new company.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#56I've paid for it, and for a bunch of other editors such as TextMate, BBEdit and Chocolate as well. These days I pretty much only use VSCode, which is, ironically, given away for free (but it's so good that I would actually pay for it if MS charged for it).
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#57Paid few years back, and never did regret it. There are at least 3 movies in the same period where I wish I didn't buy the ticket for...
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#58Paid for it few years back and never had regrets. Can't say that about a few movies in the same period, where I wish I didn't waste money on tickets
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#59I've paid for Sublime Text 2, and I got pretty annoyed when v3 came out with only extremely minor or patch-level changes only a couple of months after I bought the previous version, and I was required to pay for the license again (I didn't and used it only for a short while after this happened). I've recently moved to Atom and enjoy it a lot.
Yes, it's not as fast/light as Sublime, and it can't handle very big files, but that's rarely been a problem in my case.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?
#60I've paid for Sublime Text 2, and I got pretty annoyed when v3 came out with only extremely minor or patch-level changes only a couple of months after I bought the previous version, and I was required to pay for the license again (I didn't and used it only for a short while after this happened). I've recently moved to Atom and enjoy it a lot. Yes, it's not as fast/light as Sublime, and it can't handle very big files,…
I just recently completely switched away from Atom to VS Code. Also highly extensible, but starts up much faster and has some nice built-in extras like Git-diffing and limited intellisense. Can't live without it now, even on OSX.