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I paid for sublime. Used it for years. Then VSCode overtook it on so many levels. I even used it for notetaking because it opened faster than vscode but then t
by demondemidi 3y ago
I paid for sublime. Used it for years. Then VSCode overtook it on so many levels.
I even used it for notetaking because it opened faster than vscode but then that was fixed. Good stuff but hard to avoid a solid ecosystem that is constantly evolving with the backing of big companies. kinda sad actually.
- matthewtse 3y agoYeah, when your competitor is one of the biggest companies in the world who's willing to light millions on fire to offer a COMPLETELY FREE competitor for the sake of "developer mindshare", it's pretty easy to see the end result. I was really a skeptic for years, but Microsoft really threw money at this until it won.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThis is probably the main reason why I won’t use it anymore: Microsoft is repeating in VSCode all the things it did in the Windows/IE era.
- xarope 3y agoFirst thing I did in VScode was install/activate Vim mode. So if VScode does go the way of Windows, then I'll "just" go back to another editor with vi bindings. (yes yes, I remember some of my emacs bindings, wrote a thesis in latex on emacs, and learnt lisp as a result, but I realised that vi was more "portable")
- kapitanluffy 3y agobtw, Sublime Text has a built in vim bindings albeit disabled by default. I suggest you give it a try.
- demondemidi 3y ago> Microsoft is repeating in VSCode all the things it did in the Windows/IE era. Example?
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThey embraced open source software and open protocols like LSP to get as many programming languages working with VSCode as possible and then they licensed their own pylance language server so that you can’t use it outside of VSCode.
- cedws 3y agoThis. I absolutely love Sublime and wish I could go back to it, but the plugin ecosystem isn't the same. It's all community supported and feels like it's held together with tape. It doesn't "just work" like VSCode does. And although I appreciate that Sublime is supposed to be a simple editor, not an IDE, it wouldn't hurt to add more IDE-like features. It's just too basic for development in 2023. Sublime has a really clean, performant, cross platform UI, why not take that and build the foundations of something more viable?
- kapitanluffy 3y agoI wonder what's the last version you use? I do agree the plugin ecosystem is in shambles but they do have actively developed plugins. It's just not easy to discover. The only significant thing that I think VSCode has over Sublime is the Live sharing stuff.
- wryanzimmerman 3y agoSublime with first-party, all-annoyances-smoothed-over LSP support would be an amazing product.
- kapitanluffy 3y agoBased on your statement, I assume you tried Sublime with LSP and found it hard to setup?
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoI evaluated Sublime vs VSC just for note taking, since I was on VSC for years but I felt the resource usage was too much for having some .md files open. Sublime used far fewer resources yes, but as others have said the plugins just weren't the same. It also felt like a huge premium to pay just to take notes. Tried Obsidian a few months ago, and it's roughly on par with VSC but much better geared towards my notes.
- demondemidi 3y agoI've never had an issue with system resources since about ... 2003? I think that argument is overblown. People don't LIKE seeing the resource bloat, but it has almost zero impact on today's systems. Maybe back when I was using a WD Fireball HDD for swap space, sure...
- kapitanluffy 3y agoCurious, what's your specs?