Not sure why ST gained traction with other but here is why I love it. Notepad++ was text editor for me. ST was a sexy thing. I was drooling. I am yet to buy a

Not sure why ST gained traction with other but here is why I love it. Notepad++ was text editor for me. ST was a sexy thing. I was drooling. I am yet to buy a license for ST but I use it always. As a guy from an IDE heavy dev background, I was impressed that I can carry around my dev tool in a USB and also keep it in a folder on the network. Plus if a version is acting weird, I have can just trash-&-switch. I had many issues with VS acting nuts and it took more than 1 day to repair it. That is what push me to leave IDE oriented development. I am happy with a customized/tweaked text editor approach. A negative: Now I am playing more with Atom (ST clone) as its open source and more than 1 dev is involved. So, I will not be forced to change if the dev suddenly decides to stop. That is the main attraction for me in terms of the app being open source. I know that someone will continue and if I am desperate, I can attempt to tweak the app. Despite the huge size of Atom, one thing that attracted me to it was the aesthetics aspect. ST was missing something.