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- war1025 7y agoI remember a few years ago when Sublime was all the rage. The people I know personally that used it have all moved on to VSCode by now. Does Sublime still have a significant following?
- esalman 7y agoI use vscode for heavy lifting and sublime text as the notepad replacement.
- c-smile 7y agoYes. Sublime is unbeatable when it is used as a smart notepad - with frequent starts/closes. It loads instantly. VSCode is more like IDE (once opened, rarely closed) and is actually moving into Visual Studio direction in respect of its weight and associated problems with that.
- zeppelin101 7y agoExactly how I see them. One of my favorite use cases of Sublime is the 'FilterPipes' command. You can use it to transform the text in numerous ways (such as converting case). You can even write your own text transformation logic in Python. But my favorite use case is the 'Send Text to Command'. I just invoke gnu utilities, like sed or awk (my most common one is 'grep -i filtertext' to only display lines which match a certain pattern), which are accessible from Sublime because they're on my %PATH% on Windows. So I'm basically doing things in Sublime that Vim users think are only possible to vimmers in a unixy world. I'm filtering/transforming text very effectively, all without having to retain in memory some very arcane commands.
- Mister_Snuggles 7y agoI use Sublime Text and VSCode depending on what my needs are. I'm happy with both, but both have different strengths. Sublime Text is great for quick jobs. Looking at a large log file, pretty-printing a JSON snippet, URLdecoding a bunch of URLEncoded text, writing a one-off shell script, etc, is all quick and easy with Sublime Text. One of my favourite things is to use the multiple cursors feature to quickly construct a shell script - think of taking a list of a dozen IDs and constructing a series of 'grep' commands to look at a log file. VSCode is great for longer-lived jobs. Currently I'm working on a bigish Python script to sync data from a handful of source systems to a cloud service. Using VSCode for this sort of development works decently for me, though I'm sure I'm not using it to its full potential at all.
- ukyrgf 7y agoI remember years ago when VS Code was all the rage. Now I have to sit through 10+ seconds of top-corner update status bar windows and x.x.2x 'Welcome' screens full of animated GIFs everytime I just want to open a file.
- thiht 7y agoWtf are you talking about?
- panpanna 7y agoI don't think sublime has a large userbase anymore but definitely a vocal one. Nothing wrong with that, just pointing out that anecdata from HN will be somewhat screwed.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoI'm a very, very low level user, I mostly use it as text editor with syntax highlighting, so I'm not the target audience of your question, but what I love to bits is that it starts up instantly, and keeps unsaved files open in as many editor windows as you want. I'm somewhat of a fan just because of that. If you use the exit menu option rather than closing a window, when you start ST again, all windows open again as they were, minus undo history, but hey. That's both pleasing on a slick software level, as well as super useful.
- thefz 7y agoHaving to work with large SQL files, the CTRL+Alt combos Sublime offers are unbeatable for lightning fast insertion and formatting. https://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/editing/editing.html#other-ways-of-selecting-text https://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.io...
- toxican 7y agoFor small projects, large files, or one-off files, it's Sublime for me. For work on my existing/massive project at work, it's phpStorm. For everything else it's usually VSCode.
- JadoJodo 7y agoAt this point: What does Sublime Text offer that hasn't been superseded by VS Code and/or Atom?
- amanzi 7y agoI haven't compared it recently, but Sublime text was much faster than VS Code in lots of scenarios, and especially with large files.
- api 7y agoIt's much faster and uses less CPU and usually less RAM.
- angott 7y agoIt’s not written in JavaScript. Seriously, using native C++ gives it a real performance boost over the other two editors.
- Can_Not 7y agoAt some point many of us considered VSCode "dead on arrival", either because "Microsoft" or because "electron".
- bleachedsleet 7y agoIt's native. That's the big one for me as someone that doesn't care much for having electron apps littering my machine.
- hdra 7y agoSpeed for one, though most people seems to not care much about this, I personally can't stand the very much perceivable lag while using VS Code / Atom. And multi-cursor editing is still the best on ST. I personally use vim as my main editor, and the ST for the occasional batch text-editing. Though the out-of-box experience of VSCode is really good.
- TACIXAT 7y agoWhat does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based alternatives.
- o10449366 7y agoEditing remote files with Sublime Text and rsub[0] makes my day to day work so much easier. It seems like such a simple thing, but having a fast, intuitive, accessible, and easy to configure text editor is so underrated. I work with people that swear by vim, emacs, etc. but I never had the patience to learn how to set them up to suite my specific needs. With Sublime, I never had to. Maybe that makes me less sophisticated, but I genuinely appreciate that it's such a simple product that just works; I don't have to mess around with buffers, scrollback bindings, or memorize complicated shortcuts - I just call "subl" no matter where I am and I can manipulate the file natively on OS X. [0] https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub
- esalman 7y agovscode remote has all that, and more actually.
- o10449366 7y agoEveryone has a different use case, but in my opinion VSCode is a full fledged IDE at this point - not a text editor (and it shows in its speed.) I use ST to poke around in config files when they need quick edits because I'm less likely to make a mistake than if I used vim. It's also significantly faster when loading up large log files than VSCode. Actual remote programming is done with PyCharm, but that's just my use case.
- yamato2022 7y agoI’m working with big CSV files now and VSCode is horrific. It hangs for tens of seconds on files that I have no problem editing right away in vim/vi. So for non-Terminal use, I think I’m ready to switch back to Sublime.
- awake 7y agoare you using syntax highlighters for the csv. if you open it without syntax highlighting you may find very large performance increases.
- panpanna 7y agoEven the extremely light gedit (gnome default editor) has this problem. I think plugins should automatically disable themselves if the file is over x KB.
- jskinner 7y agoThere are only minor changes in this build: a few bug fixes, plus notarization support, which is required for macOS 10.15. We've got some pretty exciting changes coming up quite soon, but this isn't it.
- slater 7y ago"We've got some pretty exciting changes coming up quite soon" Can you elaborate? :)
- jskinner 7y agoNot yet sorry! FWIW the best place for news is in the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/D43Pecu https://discord.gg/D43Pecu
- rsoto 7y agoHey Jon, thanks for such an amazing and honest product.
- jskinner 7y agoMy pleasure, and thanks for the kind words!
- PavlovsCat 7y agoIt now highlights the current file both in the list of open files as well as the project folder trees... small feature, huge impact for me. Thanks!
- wodenokoto 7y agoIs it possible to buy both Sublime Text and Merge together in one package?
- arunpuri 7y agoI personally use 2 types of editors, VSCode for any project based work and NPP (Notepad++) for any light editing work, config files, or writing down some minor notes. I have encountered "huge file" scenarios and had Sublime installed as well in my previous job. Some scenarios and features worked well for me in Sublime, some in NPP (Macro).
- zeppelin101 7y agoI was a user of NPP for .. maybe 10 years. I finally gave Sublime another try just a few months ago and I'm full time convert. I'm not knocking on NPP but I think Sublime is a little bit more sleek. And it's cross-platform. That said, the 'Text Tools' plugin in NPP is killer.
- arunpuri 7y agoAgreed :) TEIO ..Whatever works for each of us and hetro-geniety in market is good.
- dx87 7y agoI wish they bundled in language server functionality instead of relying on 3rd party packages for it. I had to do a fresh install earlier this year, and there was a ~1 month period where you couldn't install the recommended language server plugin because the single person who had control of the repo didn't have time to update the plugin to pull dependencies from BitBucket because BitBucket changed their API. I primarily use Sublime for Rust development, and without the language server plugin you don't get much benefit besides syntax highlighting.
- kebman 7y agoI just want to use this moment to thank the creators of Sublime Text. Thank you for an awesome text editor. Who knew it could make editing life so much simpler!
- mroche 7y agoThough it has seemed to lose its market share over the past few years, there still isn’t a text editor to date that can efficiently handle what Sublime can. For me, it’s search, multi-cursor selection, OOTB shortcuts, and performance are unrivaled. Do I use VSCode, PyCharm, and Vim for most things? Yes. But when I need to edit text, lots of it, and fast, I always fall back to Sublime. Outside of it not having the things that would turn it into an IDE like VSCode, Sublime just feels like a more sane environment to work in for me, at least for text editing. Examples: Needing to edit Maya ASCII files (3D DCC) that can easily range from 10,000 to several hundred thousand lines. Most apps can’t even open these files, yet ST processes them like a champ. I’ve opened 3-5GB text files in Sublime before with little fuss. Scrolling performance does get affected a bit, but at least I can do what I need it to do.
- wolco 7y agoIt feels like my typing gets noticably fast in sublime. Amazing product.