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Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by alexcason »

emsy wrote: post #16
PlzSnow wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom is far too slow, and eats battery life. This is because of the technical decision to render text in a web view. The slowness is not a solvable problem. Therefore Atom will fail. On a more positive note, I am so happy to see SublimeText re-activated. The previous builds worked fine for me, but it's always good to see progress.

I see this argument over and over but I've never heard why it's too slow. I enter a key, the text is immediately updated. Sure, starting the editor takes 3 seconds but that's about it. Not only that, but Atom gets a faster startup with every update. The only thing I found bothersome was the 2 MB filesize restriction.

I use Atom over Sublime Text these days but there's no denying that it's much slower. It'll improve as time goes on but it takes longer to start and can very sluggish when a lot of text is being displayed. I also frequently hit the 2MB limit, far more than I thought I would do.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by JonnieCache »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #13
JonnieCache wrote: post #2

I get `unable to apply patch` from the builtin updater. Happened for 3067 last week too. Some kind of permissions problem? I've never installed it in any kind of unusual way...

Are you on Windows? I did see a post about elevated privileges here: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17470&p...

On OSX 10.9.5

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by alandarev »

pgz wrote: post #17
benbristow wrote: post #3

I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

I don't really like Atom because of the webkit usage, but I strongly agree that using a closed source text editor is a terrible idea for a programmer... when that editor stops being maintained all the time investment learning all it's time saving tricks is lost. Luckily I've been burned really early in my programming career by TextMate to know better: all my tools must be OSS and cross-platform.

That is a great point. A year without a single beta build, and yet they have not explained to the consumers anything.

Just resumed, as if nothing has happened. That is a warning: you are at mercy of a small & private company, which does not seem to care much.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by jbrooksuk »

JonnieCache wrote: post #23
jbrooksuk wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on Windows? I did see a post about elevated privileges here: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17470&p...

On OSX 10.9.5

You may want to leave a reply on the Dev build post for Jon to look at then.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by drvortex »

emsy wrote: post #16
PlzSnow wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom is far too slow, and eats battery life. This is because of the technical decision to render text in a web view. The slowness is not a solvable problem. Therefore Atom will fail. On a more positive note, I am so happy to see SublimeText re-activated. The previous builds worked fine for me, but it's always good to see progress.

I see this argument over and over but I've never heard why it's too slow. I enter a key, the text is immediately updated. Sure, starting the editor takes 3 seconds but that's about it. Not only that, but Atom gets a faster startup with every update. The only thing I found bothersome was the 2 MB filesize restriction.

Atom is also huge - 77 MB installer on Windows, while Sublime Text 3 is 8 MB. It hardly fits the bill for a lean-mean-editor.

Atom doesn't have a 64-bit version either. I tried it as a replacement for Sublime Text 3 but it just doesn't cut it. I am wondering why ST3 development had slowed down in the first place.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Post by seanwilson »

gendoikari wrote: post #26

Too late for me. Atom replaces sublime in my workflow.

Same for me at the moment. I've heard a lot of complaints that it cannot open large files and it can be sluggish; I don't regularly need to open large files (I'd rather process large log files from a terminal for instance) and the performance is fine for me. I like that Atom is open source, plugins are written in JavaScript and the rate at which new plugins are coming out is impressive.
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