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Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by albertoCaroM »

101001001001 wrote: post #58

This is the future of software even though sublime text isn’t new. People need to understand that the incentive structure surrounding the development and maintenance of software is as much a part of the software as the code is. Open source doesn’t work for the vast number of cases. When Linus dies, the only real example of a successful open source software project will die with him. Making things free doesn’t make yo…

I suppose It's joke.

There are countless successful open source projects (libraries , frameworks and languages).

Open source have come to stay, besides, nobody forbidden you to put a price if you have a opensource project and you want to give a premium experience, with extra features, maintenance or even a technical support.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by mikkelam »

dawnerd wrote: post #69
SavantIdiot wrote: post #40

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…

I don't want to take any thunder away from Sublime but VSCode basically opens instantly on M1.

takes my M1 mac about 3s to open

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by Andaith »

I love Sublime Text!

I don't know how I'd work out just how much more productive I am because of ST, but it'd be interesting to see.

I've written 4 plugins so far. My most used two are:

I created a tool to take a tab-separated table(when you copy data out of excel) and convert it into an insert statement to a temp table, so I could copy from excel, run a keyboard shortcut, run the output in MSSQL and have a temp table with all the data available(Yes, I know MSSQL has an import function. This is quicker and easier).

Also, I switched to a mac and couldn't find a nice HL7 Message Sender, so I wrote my own as a ST3 plugin and it took on a life of it's own as a tool, with people in the company sending me feature requests and everything.

Thank you Sublime Devs!

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

arvindamirtaa wrote: post #206
ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

Do you have any plans to add first class support for SSH based or docker based remote development workflows? The current Rsubl implementation kinda works. But is a bit hacky for reliable everyday work.

We've certainly talked about it, but there aren't any concrete plans yet.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

slezyr wrote: post #220
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #215

I am a home, amateur developer and I was always curious why developers would choose an editor instead of an IDE. When I started to code 25 years ago, there was no choice but as soon as I discovered IDEs I never looked back. Startup speed may be an issue, but it is I believe insignificant for a coding session (of a few hours). Key bindings are portable. IDEs bring code completion, integrated debugging etc. I am really…

1.) Speed. IDEs often take seconds to start and you just need to edit .md, .json, *.sh. 2.) Support of different file formats and ease to install a new one with Package Control. Often, it's just Ctrl-Shift-P -> Type "Inst" -> type format's name and it's done. 3.) Many IDEs show the typed symbols after some delay and I really hate it.

1 → this is true but as I mentioned, for a coding session it would not be an issue. I use vscode (an IDE) for these quick edits when my IDE of choice (jetbrains) takes quite some time to start.

2 → vscode is the same. Jetbrains has this problem, though (I raised that point with their support but this will not change, unfortunately)

3 → you mean that the text lags when typing? I never saw that but I work on reasonably fast computers and only use vscode and Jetbrains IDEs

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

joshschreuder wrote: post #213
ben-schaaf wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows and Linux have a much larger variety in hardware and drivers and much lower prevalence of high-dpi monitors. So we felt that for now it would be better to leave it disabled by default. This may change in the future.

Is there a DPI threshold that would benefit most from GPU support?

As always it depends on the hardware. I've personally found that things start to get slow at >1440p.

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by eps »

e3bc54b2 wrote: post #61
CraftThatBlock wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this implies that after 3 year, you can keep using whatever is the last version you were using. It's basically license to get what you have right + any versions in the next 3 year. JetBrains also has a similar license for yearly subscriptions, where you can keep using whatever version was supported at the end of the license.

Jetbrains license works slightly different. You get a license and access to all updates released for duration. But if your license is not renewed at the end, you lose access to updates in the year/time since you bought the license. You still keep original version at the time you purchased license for as long as you want, though.

So you are forced to downgrade in some (many?) cases?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by bambax »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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.

The UI of ST is fantastic and like most people here I love it.

However, opening big files doesn't work too well, it seems the program wants to load the whole file in memory. Any change on that front?

Re: Sublime Text 4

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Post by ben-schaaf »

onei wrote: post #207
ben-schaaf wrote: post #60

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 can see personal licenses get the 3 years worth of updates that you've mentioned elsewhere in the comments here. However, business licenses get 1 year of use before it expires, but I can't tell if that includes upgrades from ST3 to ST4. Can you clarify what the status is for that?

Business licenses follow the traditional subscription model. The licenses don't expire, but they do get revoked once the business either revokes them or stops paying. Because of this there is no upgrade from ST3 to ST4 - it's simply included in the subscription.
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