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Sublime took off cause it just works and it has a nice default color scheme and just enough batteries included to make it a functional programming environment f
by bitexploder 9y ago
Sublime took off cause it just works and it has a nice default color scheme and just enough batteries included to make it a functional programming environment for the 80% of programming situations. And it now has enough addons to increase quality of life in many areas and or solve the other 20% in many cases.
If I install emacs it is just okay. It probably has syntax highlighting, depending on the Linux distribution. It probably doesn't have any quality of life improvements for language X. I can drop in a theme and colorize it pretty quickly to my liking. From there, emacs is still very powerful, but there are a lot of things I really love for long and deep editing sessions when I am going through a lot of files on a code review or what not.
- nerdponx 9y agoDon't forget: it can be arbitrarily extended in a popular programming language and it has an unrestricted free trial.
- cdelsolar 9y agoST or Emacs?
- bitexploder 9y agoST. Python is the popular language. Elisp is... not popular. But you can do CL in emacs. As an aside I found the Leo editor not too long ago. http://leoeditor.com/ http://leoeditor.com/ -- one of the few editors that made me think "that is a little new". Leo is implemented in Python. I wish there was a modern equivalent of emacs, only all Python. :)