Although I use PyCharm as my daily IDE, I nearly always have a Sublime Text instance running in the background. I use it for note taking, small scripts, and so much else.<p>Granted, PyCharm is likely capable of most of the same things, but there's something about Sublime Text that is just so... frictionless. I don't feel like it <i>expects</i> anything from me.<p>The rise of VSCode has saddened me in certain respects. VSCode is great, and if I didn't have PyCharm, I would probably end up using it instead, but there are still certain things that it can't quite (and likely never will) surpass Sublime Text in (record/replay macros, power usage efficiency).<p>(I do hope macros will be improved to run all commands, rather than just text commands, but that's likely low on the list)<p>On a different note, I still consider the development of a continuation-like mechanism[0] for Sublime Text's API as one of the things I'm most proud of creating (if I recall correctly, Python's Asyncio library was still in the early stages back then, and `await` hadn't even been proposed).<p>Anyway, I just want to say, thanks Jon and Will, Sublime Text has had such a positive impact on my life as a programmer.<p>[0] <a href="https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/using-generators-for-fun-and-profit-utility-for-developers/14618" rel="nofollow">https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/using-generators-for-fun-and...</a>
I love Sublime Text and will be upgrading when ST4 comes out.<p>VSCode has one distinct advantage though: it’s remote SSH editing plugin (which has a proprietary license and closed source). IMO, the remote SSH and related extensions is bar none the distinguishing feature of VSCode in that it is so good and there is simply no competition. Every other feature has at least a worthy/better implementation elsewhere (ST, vim, or emacs).<p>Is there something similar for Sublime, either builtin or native? I’d <i>delighted</i> to be corrected.
I love SublimeText. In a world full of VSCode & friends; there's something to be said for an app like ST that does one thing and does it well.
Sublime Text was my favourite editor, but since a couple of years now been using VSCode ( extremely slow in comparison to Sublime at the time, but not very noticeable once I bought my MacBook i9, which cost me my eyes and only from that time was bearable).<p>I remember watching loads of talks or even knowing about well payed developers who didn't pay for the license.<p>I don't understand how someone who makes so much money was not capable of paying for such a small fee, for something they seemed to be using to do their work...<p>That says a lot.
Interesting, but I don't think I'll switch from VS Code now. It's pretty good despite not being native.<p>And sublime doesn't do FreeBSD.
ST2 was a godsend to me throughout college and holds a very special place in my heart. Five years later, I always have it open and use it to take notes. It's so simple and honestly beyond editing code, it serves as a buffer to hold random thoughts/drafts/copy/files/etc. It's also the best way to run quick transformations to text (regex search/replace, Text Pastry, etc). So thank you to the devs. I'm excited about ST4 and will use it when it comes out.<p>But, I wonder, at this point, what does it take to beat VSCode? What're the key things that seem to be missing and are they part of the roadmap?
I always wondered how the business side of things were going with sublime. How much money they are making, how many license do they have, the evolution of new license subscriptions with time, the influence of the arrival of Atom and then VSCode, etc. We'll never know for sure, but that would interesting to get a peek behind the scene.
Looks like I’ll give it a try again! I mostly prefer ST over VSCode, but for debugging C# on Windows VSCode is a lot better (and not as heavy as the full VS). Nonetheless, VS for C# + ST for everything else could be a good combo.<p>On macOS I’ve switched to nova, although I might check out ST again