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Sublime still remains my go to text editor. For development, I definitely have switched over to appropriate tools with larger feature support but nothing, I say

by rvalue 6y ago

Sublime still remains my go to text editor. For development, I definitely have switched over to appropriate tools with larger feature support but nothing, I say nothing, provides a blank slate of immense power and performance such as Sublime Text does

8fingerlouie 6y ago
I still use Sublime daily, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but i can see that VSCode is breathing down it's neck. A couple of years ago i could have sworn that they had feature parity, but these days it seems like VSCode is getting "all the cool plugins", while Sublime has stagnated. The long development cycle probably doesn't help. Sublime is still the king of speed. It launches in milliseconds, opens just about anything you can throw at it, and does so without making a fuzz. VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up, more seconds after starting up loading plugins, even more seconds refreshing plugins until it is finally ready after 10-15 seconds. It may not be a big deal if you only open it in the morning, but if you have to open it multiple times a day it becomes a chore, so much that i have reverted to Notepad++ for most trivial tasks. VSCode will also open pretty much anything you throw at it, but where Sublime will use very little memory opening a large log file, VSCode is in the GB memory consumption range long before finishing reading it. Of course, the above is only "Windows" problems, as any Unix based operating system will have some form of Vi, which is my preferred editor.
- arethuza 6y ago
  "VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up" I tried this and was surprised to find that VS Code is quite slow to start. However, opening subsequent files once the editor has started is fast and I pretty much always have VS Code running so the slow initial startup doesn't seem to be a big problem - at least for people like me who are terrible at closing programs...

by rvalue 6y ago

8fingerlouie 6y ago

I still use Sublime daily, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but i can see that VSCode is breathing down it's neck. A couple of years ago i could have sworn that they had feature parity, but these days it seems like VSCode is getting "all the cool plugins", while Sublime has stagnated. The long development cycle probably doesn't help. Sublime is still the king of speed. It launches in milliseconds, opens just about anything you can throw at it, and does so without making a fuzz. VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up, more seconds after starting up loading plugins, even more seconds refreshing plugins until it is finally ready after 10-15 seconds. It may not be a big deal if you only open it in the morning, but if you have to open it multiple times a day it becomes a chore, so much that i have reverted to Notepad++ for most trivial tasks. VSCode will also open pretty much anything you throw at it, but where Sublime will use very little memory opening a large log file, VSCode is in the GB memory consumption range long before finishing reading it. Of course, the above is only "Windows" problems, as any Unix based operating system will have some form of Vi, which is my preferred editor.

arethuza 6y ago
"VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up" I tried this and was surprised to find that VS Code is quite slow to start. However, opening subsequent files once the editor has started is fast and I pretty much always have VS Code running so the slow initial startup doesn't seem to be a big problem - at least for people like me who are terrible at closing programs...