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Hello HN, I'm one of the developers at Sublime HQ. We're all very excited about this release. If you have any questions you'd like to ask I'll do my best to answer them.
I feel bad using VSCode after years of supporting Sublime (by purchasing a license). However the one case where I do use sublime repeatedly? When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. It boots faster than VSCode, and frankly, it finally broke me of my constant habit of VIMming now that I have it on my mac, win and linux boxes. I am eager to try V4, but I'm so deep in VSCode now, I don't know if I can find my way out! I c…
To me, VSCode competes with IDEs, Sublime competes with text editors. Startup speed accounts for a solid 95% of that distinction. If I need to make a quick edit to a file or write down a temporary (but reasonably persistent) note, the only tools I've tried that let me do that in less than 3 seconds are Sublime, Notepad, and Notepad++. Among those choices, Sublime is the clear winner in overall usefulness and function…
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TBH, the rest of the world will just pirate, and if they make a good income eventually that is more the international standard, they can buy with their own cash. I don't think sublime has top of the line DRM.
I live in India, and I find the price a bit too high. But that does not mean I will pirate the app. I will use other free alternatives until I can afford the program I want to use. So, asking Sublime to reduce the price to cater to people like me is a valid request, IMO.
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Still going strong for ST2 or 3, whichever you bought.
Pretty sure I bought at ST2, been on 3 for a while.
Does all of the documentation for sublime text 3 also apply to 4? Is 4 compatible with plugins for 3? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I haven't used sublime text in forever. Hoping to try it out on a flutter project.
All of our documentation has been updated to describe both 3 and 4. The vast majority of the changes have been additions.
> Is 4 compatible with plugins for 3?
Yes, completely. What's changed is there's now an extra plugin host for python 3.8 with ST4.
I used to do battery life tests with different editors and sublime always win by a huge margin. This release claims both better performance, and also lower power use? How much less power?
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Settled into neovim for startup speed. My VSCode editor has vim keys too, so ... ohm! :) edit: My only gripe with VSCode currently is that it seems too eager to correct my typing.
I actually battle vscode every freakin day over autocomplete. It's really bad if you're writing php and happen to have a // phpcs somewhere, it'll convert <?php to <?phpcs which makes no damn sense.
I’m definitely not trying to hate VSCode i think it’s awesome too with all the community support but sometimes it just uses way too much ram making my system slow