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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by karpovv-boris » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:01 AM UTC

helloguillecl wrote: post #94

I used Sublime for coding before switching to VS Code for coding, but I could never leave Sublime text for some use cases. For example: The possibility to edit large SQL dump files, which I cannot even open in VS Code.

Ha, I,m cannot use st for large file editing, in this case vscode is more performant.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by unnamedd » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

I have always loved Sublime Text, but in 2023, Zed captured my heart, and now I have neither Sublime Text nor VS Code installed on my machine anymore.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by pims » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Piling up to the grateful comments, I've been using Sublime Text for years and still love it. It has never quite done it as an IDE for me as I'm used to more fully fledged ones like IntelliJ, however it is an amazing scratch pad and text manipulation tool. I pretty much have it permanently open. This post made me realise I had never bought a license, it is now done. Thank you for it being fair, by the way.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ben-schaaf » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

snowl wrote: post #137

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Please fix the bug if possible with Sublime Merge where the UI just becomes completely unresponsive... it always happens due to using it on a workspace and its so annoying to force close and reopen it every day! I love sublime merge otherwise!

My colleague does Sublime Merge, but I can look into this for you. Have you reported this on our issue tracker: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues?

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by shafyy » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

_cenw wrote: post #72

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #36

Sublime is just great software. It does everything I could possibly ever want an editor to do, and it does it with half the memory usage of VS Code. I like VS Code well enough, but I can't abide resource waste like that, especially when it doesn't actually buy me anything. Honestly, I use Sublime because nothing else can compare. Everything else is slow, bloated, worse to use, or some combination of the above.

Have you tried Zed, and if so, what's your opinion?

Not the person you're replying to, but I have tried Zed and I think it does too much things I don't need (like LLM integration, all that "multiplayer" stuff), and it's funded by VCs, so it will go down the road of enshittification (or sale, or shut down) eventually.

I don't want to support VC-backed companies.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ForHackernews » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:07 AM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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 have a lot of respect for Sublime Text not being yet-another-electron-monster. Thanks for your work.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by nbenitezl » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:07 AM UTC

Another happy customer of Sublime Text here, but still not dare to take the step to buy SublimeMerge, I'm pretty well served in console for my git use, except for 'git blame' that I prefer to do in a UI tool, but SublimeMerge blame support is awful.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by justin66 » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:09 AM UTC

eastbound wrote: post #5

notepad0x90 wrote: post #3

Sublime Text is so awesome, I don't mind it's constant begging for a license purchase or whatever. It's right up there with Winrar.

And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way. Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

You said in a separate comment that all your developers use it. You're in violation of the software's evaluation license.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by vsgherzi » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:09 AM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Love sublime text! Would be amazing to see a blog post from you guys go over the gui framework. Really cool tech! It’s my editor of choice!

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by eitland » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:11 AM UTC

catwell wrote: post #136

ben-schaaf wrote: post #81

Sublime 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.

Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011. I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim... ) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the remote development experience. I work in AI so we typically work over SSH on machines with big GPUs. Most of my colleagues use VSCode because it has a very good Remote Development extension.

Can't this be solved using a remote file system these days?

I haven't done it in years since with every customer from the last few years the only official way to get to prod is a CI-pipeline, but I think I remember using sfpt or ssh-based file systems even a decade back?