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sublime text is the best editor currently, in my view. apart from code folding.
by jokoon 5y ago
sublime text is the best editor currently, in my view.
apart from code folding.
- perryizgr8 5y agoOnly problem with sublime is the exorbitant price. It's just too much!
- preommr 5y ago$100 for what one (three?) years? Seriously? Forget the exorbitant tech salaries, so many other industries charge way more for essential equipment. That's chaper than a single snap-on wrench out of the hundreds that an automative shop has to buy. It's two months of adobe bundle that most graphic designers subscribe to. I think the perspective here is important.
- laumars 5y agoNot everyone on HN is on Silicon Valley wages. Or even work in international tech hubs like SV or London. For some in tech, $100 is a hell of a lot of money.
- perryizgr8 5y ago$100 for a text editor seems quite expensive to me. I agree it is not much in comparison to many other professional tools.
- zerocount 5y agoYep, I'm either on Sublime or Emacs.
- yz1ruhzh 5y agoIt was my daily driver for programming, editing.. pretty much everything text related until their latest version. Autocomplete became extremely annoying and the editor feels less snappier. After years I ended up switching to VS Code, and I keep sublime text when I quickly want to edit a text file.
- monopoledance 5y agoNot FOSS. For many, that's an issue. Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software. I get the appeal, if you come from macOS or Windows, but for Linux it's often the first "dirty" thing you would introduce, so it feels like a big deal. Btw. I have used Sublime. It is a very nice Editor. Most importantly incredibly snappy and so far no other editor matched Sublime's intuitive `TAB` completion dynamics. Oh, yeah, and it's fucking expensive...
- coldtea 5y ago>Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software. So, just how the biggest companies, banks, governments, etc. in the world work (using e.g. Excel, Word, Visual Studio, etc)...
- miloignis 5y agoHonestly "big companies, banks, governments" do sound like the usual suspects for writing programs insecurely to me (I work for one of those).
- coldtea 5y agoYes, but if this is standard procedure in 99.999% of cases, I doubt "good enough for them" habit of running a commercial binary that's not open source (basically how the whole planet except perhaps NSA and such works), is not also good enough for some random linux user (assuning they don't trade in ultra-sensitive data).
- monopoledance 5y agoAs I said, it is not good enough for me. Why do you feel the need to argue for closed-source software, anyway? Do you need to justify this to yourself? Rest assured, personally, I don't care what you feel comfortable using. on a side note, banks and governments often actually audit closed-source code, as they get that worked out in their contracts. Go ahead and ask Microsoft, if you could do the same...
- spyremeown 5y agoUnironically yes. It's so fast.
- debdut 5y agoagree :) daily driver. nova.app pretty great stuff too