any happy clojure ST4 users?
Sublime Text 4
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Re: Sublime Text 4
#332I know people who love Sublime but are worried about it disappearing, or paying for an upgrade only to see development to stall. It's good to see that the Sublime team have responded to this with a licensing model that rewards them for releasing updates: > Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase. After that, you will…
I'm curious how this works at the technical level. The license key presumable encodes both an expiry date and what version numbers it is valid for when it was issued (and therefore will continue to work for even after expiry)?
Licenses encode an issue date and builds have a build date.
Re: Sublime Text 4
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isnt it just a simple subscription model with a 3 year term?
Normal subscription models make you lose access to the software if you stop paying. With Sublime Text's new license model you retain full access except to updates released after the 3 year period has lapsed.
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Re: Sublime Text 4
#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
VSCode is much much faster than the popular IDEs (namely, IntelliJ) in my experience. I'd say it occupies a middle point between full IDE and text editor.
Very true, the more features a product has the slower it opens. That middle ground is why I don't use VSCode
If I want the best IDE, its something from JetBrains. It's definitely the slowest to open up, about 9 seconds on my machine, and I wouldn't think of opening a multi GB json file in it, but past that initial open its just as fast as sublime (again on my machine).
If I want the fastest text wrangler or dealing with a massive file, its Sublime. Having used all 3, VSCode just leaves me wishing I opened one of the others.
The best thing about VScode is that it is a really good (just not the best) IDE that is also free
Re: Sublime Text 4
#335I 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…
My opinion is that it depends on the work done (codebase, language, etc.). In the
Re: Sublime Text 4
#336I 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…
> When I need to open an editor QUICKLY.
I solved this need long ago with BBEdit (hi Rich!): I leave it running all the time. It is the only application that starts with my user login, and it is always available.
Re: Sublime Text 4
#337Hello 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.
How difficult would it be to make a Sublime-Text-for-terminals?
It's by no means ST for terminals but Micro is well worth a look if you haven't seen it. It has sane keyboard shortcuts, nice syntax highlighting, mouse and multi-cursor support.
Re: Sublime Text 4
#338Sublime Text is my first tool to install on any new notebook. As someone who spends more time in meetings than in writing code, I almost purely use it as a note taking app and nothing’s come closer with just how easy it is to fire up a new note and get started! Thank you for building this.
Re: Sublime Text 4
#339I love this editor, but this detail annoys me:
https://i.imgur.com/wu6ZfSa.png
Folding code with curly braces doesn't "eat" the brace. It's indent-based, not syntax based. There is a 2 or 3 years old issue on their github, and they don't plan to fix. A little annoying for a paying editor.
Maybe they fixed it and I did not look up new settings?