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Sublime has served me well for years and I still use it for working with MASSIVE files as all other editors seem to choke on these, but VSCode is leaps and boun

Sublime has served me well for years and I still use it for working with MASSIVE files as all other editors seem to choke on these, but VSCode is leaps and bounds ahead of Sublime Text. A great editor that fell behind a while ago, they didn't step their game up when Atom came out, I doubt VSCode will change anything sadly. Also worth pointing out that VSCode with its debugger, intellisense, addons and other things is ahead of all competitors right now on all fronts.

ksec 10y ago
True, I wonder if Sublime is ready to be acquired at this stage.
Hydraulix989 10y ago
It's a shame because Sublime is one of the few pieces of software that I use on my computer on a day-to-day basis that isn't a buggy POS (besides the well-written venerable UNIX shell apps). Firefox? Buggy. Chrome? Buggy. Any other GUI editor? Buggy. Android Studio? Buggy. XCode? Buggy. I could go on all day. It's written in C++, too, so it's lightning fast. There's no reason UIs should be laggy in 2016 on the very highest-spec Lenovo Thinkpad mobile workstation, but that's the sad reality of anything written in Electron JS (along with zero 4K Hi-DPI support on Linux, so I have to squint to read the microscopic text on Slack, Upwork, Discord, Messenger for Desktop, Whatsie, Skype for Linux Alpha, ...).
- BrandonLive 10y ago
  That sounds more like a Linux problem than an Electron/JS problem ;-)
  - biocomputation 10y ago
    ++ Although it's definitely an Electron problem. My few experiences with Atom have been that it is absolutely and unacceptably slow on top hardware.
  - Hydraulix989 10y ago
    Then why does every other Linux program I run work just fine with my Hi-DPI display? This isn't anything new, these displays have been around for years now.
jomamaxx 10y ago
Agreed. I don't even like MS, but MS VS Code is just great. Sadly, I think they kind of ripped off most of Sublime's 'ideas' (who knows where they originated) ... But I'm pretty impressed with it as far as the 'light editor' category goes. I've stopped using Atom and Sublime altogether. It's perhaps the only MS produce I've ever thought very highly of. Bravo to them on this one.

ksec 10y ago

True, I wonder if Sublime is ready to be acquired at this stage.

Hydraulix989 10y ago

It's a shame because Sublime is one of the few pieces of software that I use on my computer on a day-to-day basis that isn't a buggy POS (besides the well-written venerable UNIX shell apps). Firefox? Buggy. Chrome? Buggy. Any other GUI editor? Buggy. Android Studio? Buggy. XCode? Buggy. I could go on all day. It's written in C++, too, so it's lightning fast. There's no reason UIs should be laggy in 2016 on the very highest-spec Lenovo Thinkpad mobile workstation, but that's the sad reality of anything written in Electron JS (along with zero 4K Hi-DPI support on Linux, so I have to squint to read the microscopic text on Slack, Upwork, Discord, Messenger for Desktop, Whatsie, Skype for Linux Alpha, ...).

BrandonLive 10y ago
That sounds more like a Linux problem than an Electron/JS problem ;-)
- biocomputation 10y ago
  ++ Although it's definitely an Electron problem. My few experiences with Atom have been that it is absolutely and unacceptably slow on top hardware.
- Hydraulix989 10y ago
  Then why does every other Linux program I run work just fine with my Hi-DPI display? This isn't anything new, these displays have been around for years now.

jomamaxx 10y ago

Agreed. I don't even like MS, but MS VS Code is just great. Sadly, I think they kind of ripped off most of Sublime's 'ideas' (who knows where they originated) ... But I'm pretty impressed with it as far as the 'light editor' category goes. I've stopped using Atom and Sublime altogether. It's perhaps the only MS produce I've ever thought very highly of. Bravo to them on this one.