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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by 8fingerlouie » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 12:27 AM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #308

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.

I'd be lucky if my new job even requires me to code anything. Moved from Application Architecture to Enterprise Architecture, so most likely powerpoint from here on out :)

And that suits me just fine, gives me more time to code stuff that interests me in my spare time.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by rglynn » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 1:57 AM UTC

IMO the main thing going for Sublime was performance, since VScode lacks in that area. Unfortunately, Zed now exists and I see no reason to use Sublime other than habit/specific use cases.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by rglynn » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

nottorp wrote: post #252

andrepd wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw you can disable all AI bloat and online features with a couple of config keys

But isn't that your "zed"'s selling point? What remains if you turn those off? Does it have gamification too, in addition to "AI" and "social"?

Zed's selling point is performance

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by rglynn » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

0n0n0m0uz wrote: post #576

I use it too. What do most people consider as a better alternative?

Zed, unless you are on Windows.

VSCode sucks on the performance front, which is why Sublime was still popular. Now Zed has taken that niche (while also having a lot of modern features).

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by wetpaws » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 2:28 AM UTC

rglynn wrote: post #582

IMO the main thing going for Sublime was performance, since VScode lacks in that area. Unfortunately, Zed now exists and I see no reason to use Sublime other than habit/specific use cases.

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Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by pruppert » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 2:40 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.

12-ish year user here. I love Sublime and by extension love you. Keep up the awesome work!

I’m a hobbyist programmer but make my living as a doctor and use Sublime to write medical reports. It’s just so damn good for manipulating/shaping/crafting text.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by UltraSane » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

bbor wrote: post #443

munificent wrote: post #421

I love Sublime Text. It's one of my favorite pieces of software. I have it running 100% of the time on every machine I work on. It's where I write all of my personal notes, blog posts, and it's where I wrote both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". At the same time, it's not the tool I use as an IDE. For programming, I use whatever IDE is dominant for the language I'm working in. Over time, that'…

Out of curiosity, what is it about an IDE that you find useful...? I'm probably just a heathen, but I've always done the build/run steps on the command line, and Sublime has LSP for all the syntax & semantics goodies other than that -- like for Python, I've got Ruff (syntax), Jedi (semantics), and CoPilot (autocomplete) running happily, with what I feel is an impressive amount of configurability. Are people just work…

"Out of curiosity, what is it about an IDE that you find useful...?"

I really don't understand this question. It is like asking "What is it about SolidWorks that you find so useful"

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by steve_adams_86 » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #559

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #484

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it integrated into their IDEs? That's incredible. Fair point, then. Maybe I should consider using their IDEs.

Yes and since few weeks ago it now comes for free with WebStorm.

Wow, that’s crazy! I need to give it a trial again.

Do you know how the LLM integration is? I heard it’s terrible, but that isn’t a deal breaker.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by sabhiram » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 7:32 AM UTC

Between vi(m) and VSCode - sublime has grown increasingly less useful in my day to day life. Used to use it exclusively, but it has lately been squeezed on both ends due to increasing server side development needs.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

#590

Post by ckunte » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #540

ckunte wrote: post #250

Long time Sublime Text and Sublime Merge fan, and a paying user since 2011. It's very good; I use all three OSes (Windows at work, MacOS on occasion, Linux is primary driver, and I've now switched to Pi 5. Zed does not even load on this, whereas ST just flies. (The only real competition is Neovim.) That reminds me, I wonder if Sublime Text still has room to improve in some areas. Here's an example, in Vim generating…

You can achieve the same thing using the arithmetic command in the command palette: `__import__('datetime').datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")`.

Thank you, Ben. Wow! TIL.