Definitely. TextMate was my primary editor at one point, and Sublime is still my editor of choice. =) But, I think the bar has been raised since those days. S

Definitely. TextMate was my primary editor at one point, and Sublime is still my editor of choice. =) But, I think the bar has been raised since those days. Sublime's been Jon's fulltime work for a decade, and has probably 20,000+ hours of work on the core editor, at least an order of magnitude more work put into its extensions, and certainly millions of hours of real-world use and bug reporting. That's kind of the minimum bar that newcomers need to approach or exceed just to get into the game in 2019. Unless they are bringing something totally different to the table. For example, Atom's Electron base has drawbacks but it brought a new level (or at least a new kind of) hackability to the game. In Sublime and Textmate's case, they too brought something unique to the game. While lacking the raw power and configurability and pedigree of vim and emacs, they brought something of that mentality to the world of GUI text editors. And their minimal GUIs allowed them to be flexible and powerful in ways that full-blown GUI monstrosities like Eclipse could not be.