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Are you really dissing the tremendous efforts put forward by the Sublime Text developer? Editors such as Visual Studio Code have largely caught up feature wise
by sundvor 8y ago
Are you really dissing the tremendous efforts put forward by the Sublime Text developer?
Editors such as Visual Studio Code have largely caught up feature wise yet ST still represents something rather unique as a super fast, easily customisable and aesthetically pleasing text editor, with multi selection editing, fuzzy search command lookups and json configs - for a long time it was heads and shoulders above most others.
Now others have copied ST's main innovations, but it doesn't change the fact that Skinner got there first.
I went from Textpad straight to ST, skipping Eclipse etc as being too slow and ungainly. These days I use Visual Studio 2017 for Resharper and NCrunch, but I've still defined a macro to open for editing in ST when I just want a lot of changes done.
- solarkraft 8y agoSublime Text is great and I don't really feel bad installing it because I have an enormous trust in the developer, but: It is proprietary, with the usual problems. Though I also have to say that it is so complete that I have never had the wish to extend it.
- h1d 8y agoMaybe try Jetbrain's product and see what you may be missing from stock installs of text editors?
- simias 8y ago>Are you really dissing the tremendous efforts put forward by the Sublime Text developer? I'm sorry if it sounded like I said anything like that, I'm talking solely from the point of view of the user, I have no doubt that a lot of work goes into it. I'm just saying that as a user I really don't see the point of taking the risk of using a closed source tool when high quality open source code editors exist.