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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 Ballas »

dmi3 wrote: post #85

In the argument of Sublime Text vs. VS Code, the deal breaker for me has always been VS Code telemetry. Of course, you can disable it in the settings or firewall, but then you have to constantly monitor it to ensure that some "bug" or "update" does not re-enable it back. Alternatively, you can choose not to care about potentially sharing everything with Microsoft and their 829+ partners. However, I prefer to pay for…

If telementry is your main concern, just use vscodium. (or stick to SublimeText - I use both) https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by girvo »

abraxas wrote: post #17

I guess your love is not unlike my long ago passion for CodeWright. It was such a flexible beast with perfect support for BRIEF bindings and an infinitely configurable user interface. Alas, the world preferred the simplicity of Visual Studio or JBuilder and the best programmer's editor for Windows slowly but surely withered away. I'm not planning on repeating the mistake of learning a complex environment only to see…

Similar to my love of KomodoEdit/IDE. Being built on XUL was fascinating to me as a Firefox die hard, web tech powered the UI which made it easy to hack on, and I still reckon it was the best most advanced editor for PHP at the time.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by guessmyname »

panza wrote: post #51
eastbound wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way. Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

I often see downvotes when people criticise ST's pricing, but I mostly agree with the detractors - the price always seems to be just a few bucks over the magical limit I'd be willing to pay.

Tech workers often spend $100 or more on a fancy meal with friends in a single night—I've definitely done that more than once. So paying $100 for a software license that I’ll be using almost every hour of the workday, and even more when working on personal projects, feels like a bargain.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by guessmyname »

eastbound wrote: post #5
notepad0x90 wrote: post #3

Sublime Text is so awesome, I don't mind it's constant begging for a license purchase or whatever. It's right up there with Winrar.

And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way. Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

You’re either hiring developers from countries where $100 is a lot of money, or you expect them to only open Sublime Text once a year. Don’t be stingy—$100 is a steal when it’s the primary tool for nearly every developer. You probably spend that much (or more) on a weekend outing with your partner or friends.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by ben-schaaf »

shakna wrote: post #88
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.

One tiny thing, that I haven't investigated at all... And doesn't seem to be a common thing to worry about... If I have a file with an asterisk in it, then Sublime [0] seems to have issues displaying the file name. *.x will appear as [].x for some reason. [0] (Build 4180, out of date...)

That could be any number of things, I suggest posting an issue on our public issue tracker: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by warrenski »

dmi3 wrote: post #85

In the argument of Sublime Text vs. VS Code, the deal breaker for me has always been VS Code telemetry. Of course, you can disable it in the settings or firewall, but then you have to constantly monitor it to ensure that some "bug" or "update" does not re-enable it back. Alternatively, you can choose not to care about potentially sharing everything with Microsoft and their 829+ partners. However, I prefer to pay for…

Have a look at VSCodium (https://vscodium.com/), it's a freely-licensed binary distribution of VS Code without the telemetry.

Re: I still like Sublime Text

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Post by stevoski »

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.

Sublime Text is great the way it is. If you have to change things, please make them just tiny, incremental changes.
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