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I still like Sublime Text

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by usefulcat »

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.

Same here, for 15 years. I mainly use vi on the remote machine.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by wkirby »

Sublime is still great. I wish it had a tighter LSP integration — the plugin is decent, but individual language implementations are hit or miss. I sincerely appreciate that it has an old school fallback for languages that don’t have robust LSP support (looking at you Ruby).

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

dartos wrote: post #293
calini wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! I was a Sublime Text fan throughout University, and I would have loved to continue using it. Unfortunately for me Sublime lacks too many necessities, and that forced me off Sublime and onto the much slower VSCode. I really wish Sublime would develop a more solid plugin system and have some sane built-ins such as a terminal.

> sane built-ins such as a terminal. It’s all preference. I think it’s insane that people use the terminal in their editors.

Why is it insane? Along with a terminal, I also use a database editor inside my code editor.

That’s the point behind an IDE - integrated developer environment.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by have_faith »

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 don't use ST as my daily driver any more but I still use it for fast editing of large files occasionally. I am daily driving Merge though. Any other Sublime apps in the works?

Have you also considered offering ST and SM as a bundle price with a discount? I'd be interested just because of my lopsided use of the two apps.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ubermonkey »

I definitely still use Sublime. It's not my go-to for everything now, but my job has drifted in a way that means I don't DO those kinds of tasks that often anymore. For writing I've gravitated towards tools with better innate outlining and/or Markdown support (Obsidian); my work notes are still mostly in emacs/orgmode.

But if I need to open a big-ass text file, or process something in a pure text environment without anything helping me or trying to preserve formatting... yeah, it's probably still Sublime.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by Fnoord »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #225

I've used Sublime Text since it's initial release, and later on Sublime Merge, and i own licenses for every major version released. However, my ST4 license recently expired, and that caused me to look back at the previous 3 years to see what my money was actually buying me, and it turns out it was mostly bugfixes. There have been, rather consistently, 2 releases per year (november and august), and the last major feat…

I got a burn-out and lost my job. In the meantime my license expired. Once I get a job again (if ever) I will once again buy a license.

I'll give zed a look. One thing I miss with ST is remote editing.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by wuliwong »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #150

I really want to like Sublime (it's so fast, I like the minimal UI), but VS Code has so much inertia, and does so much out of the box or with minimal extra effort that it's hard to not use it instead. At the end of the day, I have things to get done, I'm not here to tinker with tools. Same reason I never got into vim/emacs etc as a daily driver.

I didn't want to switch to VS Code and kinda did b/c there is less friction when I'm using the same tools as my counterparts. I like VS Code just fine. My first true love was textmate tbh. :)

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by GuB-42 »

juleiie wrote: post #174
GuB-42 wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eclipse is a full IDE. Sublime Text and VSCode are not. A competitor to Eclipse would be JetBrains IntelliJ or Visual Studio (not Code), both are often considered superior by far, but neither are free. Eclipse is also a platform for creating applications (RCP/RAP).

Free or paid what’s the difference. If you have company you can afford it professionally, if you are a student you can get a free license, if you are NEET dev you can —————- it.

I understand the downvotes but it is an interesting point.

First thing, Eclipse is not just free as in free beer, it is also free as in freedom, which can matter.

In addition, you may be surprised how much free (as in free beer) matters to large companies and governments. Of course, a multi-billion dollar company can pay, but the simple act of acquiring a license, no matter the cost, can be a lengthy bureaucratic process for the lowly developer who needs it. It is usually much easier to use free software, especially big names like Eclipse that may be pre-approved. Of course, using a free licence you have no right to, let alone piracy is a big no no.

And while I don't think corporate inefficiency is a good reason, it is a reality and you have to work with it.

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