I've been using Sublime Text (TextMate before that) professionally for several years now. I gladly paid those $70 and it's certainly paid off. Just as with IDE

I've been using Sublime Text (TextMate before that) professionally for several years now. I gladly paid those $70 and it's certainly paid off. Just as with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA (of which I'm a happy customer as well) that boost your productivity I never understood that petty kind of mulling over paying for a reasonably priced software product that makes your professional life easier. Developer time is expensive. If there's a tool that allows you to make better use of that time buying such a tool is no-brainer. I also never understood why the same enterprise-sized companies that often frivolously spend millions on licences for database and application servers are extremely stingy when it comes to software that makes the people that work for them more productive. Finally, if a particular piece of software does make you more productive as a software developer and you then don't pay for it but just keep using it while occasionally cancelling the nag dialog that's at least a tad bit unethical and unprofessional. You'd expect your customers or your employer to pay you for your work as well, wouldn't you?