I also use ST and use browser if I need some AI assisted coding. What about you guys? Is using IDEs with native AI coding plugin a good reason to switch away from ST?
I still like Sublime Text
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Re: I still like Sublime Text
#122I bought a "double license" for Text and Merge three years ago and spent money on Sublime for the first time. I will definitely be renewing it in February.
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#123I still like textmate and use it daily, together with heavy IDEs, imo best multiline editing and search in large codebase
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#124Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
I think a big hit for ST's popularity - next to the rise of Atom and VS Code - was its upgrade from version 3 to 4; are you considering to do that again or, if funds are required, do a different way to raise money?
With the new licensing model we no longer need to hold back changes and do major releases. Avoiding the big pause in updates was partly why it was changed.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a Sublime user I mostly agree, except for the project stuff. I can never bring myself to set that up. What are you using multiple LSP servers per file for?
If you have any in-lined code, SQL/HTML. I can see that being a great feature. My eyes widened at that part of the article, as I have to betray syntax highlighting when I in-line something, which makes me want to break it into it's own file to get the highlighting back. But for simple things (like one-liners); breaking it into its own file makes things even more messy.
Hmm, so while it's not LSP I do have a Markdown plugin that highlights code blocks. But I don't rely on autocomplete there.
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#126I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. I personally use Eclipse, BBEdit and KATE in 2025, and love them. Sublime is one of the tools which really grown and aged well, so it deserves the love it gets. I personally don't let anybody to tell me which tool to use. It's rude to mock and belittle the tools people use.
AFAIU, Sublime Text and Kate (my editor of choice) are pretty similar in spirit, so when I read something nice about ST, I mentally insert "... and Kate". They are both snappy power editors, not IDEs, with LSP support.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#127I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. I personally use Eclipse, BBEdit and KATE in 2025, and love them. Sublime is one of the tools which really grown and aged well, so it deserves the love it gets. I personally don't let anybody to tell me which tool to use. It's rude to mock and belittle the tools people use.
AFAIU, Sublime Text and Kate (my editor of choice) are pretty similar in spirit, so when I read something nice about ST, I mentally insert "... and Kate". They are both snappy power editors, not IDEs, with LSP support.
Yes, KATE, ST and BBEdit (and VSCode) are "Code aware text editors". I use KATE and BBEdit for smaller project and Go mostly, and use Eclipse for the bigger stuff which needs its own "space" to be developed well and kept organized.
It's a "correct tool for the job at hand" situation for me.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often see downvotes when people criticise ST's pricing, but I mostly agree with the detractors - the price always seems to be just a few bucks over the magical limit I'd be willing to pay.
Tech workers often spend $100 or more on a fancy meal with friends in a single night—I've definitely done that more than once. So paying $100 for a software license that I’ll be using almost every hour of the workday, and even more when working on personal projects, feels like a bargain.
I do wonder why it is that way though, because you're right, I've balked at the cost of software before, but had no issue in spending an order of magnitude more money on a flight to SF to meet up with other developers.
Re: I still like Sublime Text
#129I also use ST and use browser if I need some AI assisted coding. What about you guys? Is using IDEs with native AI coding plugin a good reason to switch away from ST?
Frankly yes, though I still prefer text editing in Sublime Text.
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#130Sublime rules. I started my career with Brackets, then Sublime, then Atom for a short while. Then switched to VS Code for a few years and just recently switched back to Sublime because of how slow VS Code became. Also great pricing! One time purchase for Sublime is still available in 2025!
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