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Sublime is an excellent editor and anyone who looks down on anyone else for their choice is not doing so because they are a Vim/Emacs user, it is because they a
by quanticle 10y ago
Sublime is an excellent editor and anyone who looks down on anyone else for their choice is not doing so because they are a Vim/Emacs user, it is because they are being an idiot.
Restating for emphasis. Text editors are tools. They're means, not ends. As long as you're getting your work done, I don't care whether you use vim, emacs, Sublime, Atom, VS Code, nano, or even notepad.exe.
At my last job, I used vim, one co-worker used emacs, while a third co-worker used Sublime. While we had our fair share of good-natured ribbing, I don't think any of us looked down on the others for using a different editor.
- erelde 10y ago> or even notepad.exe As long as you write all your code on one line
- erikb 10y agoI agree with your point of view. Additionally I would add that there are some tools which are obviously not worth it. Someone who wants to use notepad.exe for serious programming must show me first that they can be as productive with it as normal people are with other tools. You need to be able to reach the end, to validate a tool as a means.
- sullyj3 10y agoThis seems disingenuous. I mean, the "as long as" is the key qualifier. If I showed you someone who uses sublime and someone who does all their coding in notepad, and asked you to bet on which was a better programmer (for some metric of better) can you honestly say that you wouldn't bet against the notepadder?
- quanticle 10y agoThe example of notepad.exe was admittedly a bit hyperbolic, but I knew some pretty decent programmers who'd write code in nano or gEdit.