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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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VSCode is just as fast for opening 4 GB log files

Vim is not slower!

I agree and I do use Vim for all quick edits I need. Just wanted to challenge the idea that Sublime Text was better than alternatives in the space of GUI text editors

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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And yet, ST is closed source. Still a wild comparison. This isn’t just license preference either. I would imagine the efforts of the sublime lsp people would be greatly eased if they had access to the source. But nah zed bad because cla.

No it's not. I mostly find closed source application with clear lines more trustworthy than openwashed software. I'm a big Free Software supporter. For my personal projects, I only use (A)GPLv3 or later. However, I have a problem with software which comes with "GPLv3 BUT..." licenses. We have seen how CLAs weaponized against their contributors with rugpull license changes. Also, Zed was closed source at first. I had…

> Then they pivoted to "Open source with closed source collaboration servers" thing, and they claimed rights on anything passing through their servers (collaboration / zed-ai).

Does this apply if you use it same as Sublime? That is without collaboration / ai.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#183

I'm a Sublime fanboy, but have been using VSCode for years as I like the Github Copilot integration :-(

There's a, community supported, Copilot LSP plugin for Sublime. It can be rough around the edges - but I tried it and it was enough to get me to buy a 1yr Copilot seat (at current pricing).

Completely understand if Copilot is enough to make people want to switch over - but for me it wasn't, and I don't feel like I'm missing out with this setup.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Sublime Text team, thank you so much for creating the best tool out there! I truly appreciate the stability and simplicity of your product. My main request is to add a tool similar to Cursor Composer and Chat. Thank you again!

Long time Sublime customer here: Please, please do not add any LLM integrations. One of the main reasons I love Sublime is that I can just focus on writing code, without 100 distracting things popping in and popping out. Also, that I support a business with my money that does not spend resources on the LLM hype.

I am in the exact opposite boat - AI is significantly improving my programming flow and having to use VSCode (well, VSCodium in my case) rather than something lightweight like Sublime is suboptimal - I would love a good plugin for LLM integration ala Cody and frankly that's the only way I could see myself as a paying customer.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#185

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.

Likewise!

The only reason I moved away from subl is that I got access to a big ass machine and I needed to work remotely. The performance of VS code here is so good that often times I forget that the code and terminal is not my local machine.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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vscode keybindings are insane. There are couple of thousands of them turned on by default with multiple duplications and no abstrations. So you have to negate them all first (that takes around 5000 lines of json) and then carefully go over around 500-700 definitions which might be important for you. So, my custom keymap in intellij has 44 definition, the vscode equivalent takes 675 and 2000 lines of json.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#187

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.

Is there any chance we'd see a Sublime Debug? Loved Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. The main thing I'm missing in my life is a really good and fast cross platform UI for a LOT of debugger backends. (I tend to works with a lot of programming languages, and CLI debuggers are really clunky to use).

I'd also be delighted with, and happy to part with cash for, such a thing.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#189
I've bought a license recently. I found the LSP-clangd plugin to be useful for the linting features of clangd and clangd-tidy for a C++ project recently. Having the lint highlighting helped me clean up some possible problems, (after reducing the number of types of lint to a shortish whtielist)

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#190

I used to love Sublime Text and used it for my daily driver. Even bought a license. But just downloaded it again, and while it definitely felt snappy, after 15 minutes I still couldn't find a way to get TypeScript type checking working, or even any type of JavaScript/TypeScript autocomplete.

If you are locked in to TypeScript, you are basically locked in to VSCode (albeit a "soft" lock-in).
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