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I really like sublime text, i have considered buying it several times. I go to the buy page and see the price tag - $70 US! Nope. Given the very slow and infre

I really like sublime text, i have considered buying it several times. I go to the buy page and see the price tag - $70 US! Nope. Given the very slow and infrequent development and the fact that its just a text editor (albeit a fancy one), i really can't justify the price. I would consider buying if it was receiving regular updates (bug fixes, new features, etc) and had a bit of certainty with its future. But really, if it was priced around $20, i would have bought it ages ago - and if it hadn't then, I'd buy it now.

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fuj 11y ago
Nice excuse for being cheap. Is Sublime unstable or lacking any major feature? Why the pressure of getting more regular updates if there's not anything critical missing. On the contrary, it has a lot of features, there's a massive eco system of plugins for it. Do you use Sublime for work? If so, you should pay for it. Any other excuse is just you, being cheap. $70 is nothing for it offers.
- kedean 11y ago
  He's not saying "I would never pay for a text editor, that's ridiculous!", he's saying $70 is just a little steep for a text editor. What exactly is it offering that makes it worth $70 vs something more reasonable? Panic's Coda is priced similarly, but it also offers a lot of web-dev targeted features that other editors either don't provide or only provide less user-friendly plugins for When you strip out plugins made by someone who isn't getting a cut of that $70, what are the tangible features Sublime has over the glut of free editors out there?
lewiseason 11y ago
But then again, how many bugs have you found? And with it's rich plugin ecosystem, what features are sorely missing? For something I'm going to have my face in for hours each day, every day, $70 seems pretty reasonable. (Partially playing devil's advocate here, as I use vim much more than Sublime)

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fuj 11y ago

Nice excuse for being cheap. Is Sublime unstable or lacking any major feature? Why the pressure of getting more regular updates if there's not anything critical missing. On the contrary, it has a lot of features, there's a massive eco system of plugins for it. Do you use Sublime for work? If so, you should pay for it. Any other excuse is just you, being cheap. $70 is nothing for it offers.

kedean 11y ago
He's not saying "I would never pay for a text editor, that's ridiculous!", he's saying $70 is just a little steep for a text editor. What exactly is it offering that makes it worth $70 vs something more reasonable? Panic's Coda is priced similarly, but it also offers a lot of web-dev targeted features that other editors either don't provide or only provide less user-friendly plugins for When you strip out plugins made by someone who isn't getting a cut of that $70, what are the tangible features Sublime has over the glut of free editors out there?

lewiseason 11y ago

But then again, how many bugs have you found? And with it's rich plugin ecosystem, what features are sorely missing? For something I'm going to have my face in for hours each day, every day, $70 seems pretty reasonable. (Partially playing devil's advocate here, as I use vim much more than Sublime)