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I would like to know where Sublime Text would be with the same resources as VSCode.

praveenster 9y ago
I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.
- Mahn 9y ago
  > if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? Certainly more than if ST were to be abandoned. In fact the main reason why VSCode and Atom exist is probably Sublime being closed source.
- jorvi 9y ago
  If you look closely you can see that the VScode guys took a very, very good look at Sublime. They use a .json config with kind-of the same style, they have per folder settings, they've implemented multiple cursors and indent guides. I switched over a month or two back and for me VScode feels like a superset of Sublime, minus some of the snappiness. Hell, if you look at VScode GitHub issues, there's a fair amount that boil down to 'please implement this Sublime feature'.
geodel 9y ago
I think not necessarily in better place. The idea of 1000s of Javascript/electron developers hacking on a text editor, does not seem very useful to me. Atom/VScode already exists and extremely popular and rapidly released. Some editors which are released slowly and liked by few is ok. I am using Sublime 3 in beta for very long time. Sometimes it gives popup to upgrade which I do then. Else it is fine, doing the job at hand without latest and greatest feature which I am not using.

I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.

Mahn 9y ago
> if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? Certainly more than if ST were to be abandoned. In fact the main reason why VSCode and Atom exist is probably Sublime being closed source.
jorvi 9y ago
If you look closely you can see that the VScode guys took a very, very good look at Sublime. They use a .json config with kind-of the same style, they have per folder settings, they've implemented multiple cursors and indent guides. I switched over a month or two back and for me VScode feels like a superset of Sublime, minus some of the snappiness. Hell, if you look at VScode GitHub issues, there's a fair amount that boil down to 'please implement this Sublime feature'.

geodel 9y ago

I think not necessarily in better place. The idea of 1000s of Javascript/electron developers hacking on a text editor, does not seem very useful to me. Atom/VScode already exists and extremely popular and rapidly released. Some editors which are released slowly and liked by few is ok. I am using Sublime 3 in beta for very long time. Sometimes it gives popup to upgrade which I do then. Else it is fine, doing the job at hand without latest and greatest feature which I am not using.