Many years ago I bought Sublime Text minutes after using the plugin system to install some support for the languages I use. This was a decade before VSCode too

Many years ago I bought Sublime Text minutes after using the plugin system to install some support for the languages I use. This was a decade before VSCode took over, and at the time I was a Vim user for most of my career. It was a breath of fresh air compared to the Stockholm syndrome I had built around VimScript, and I never looked back. We (people like me) owe ST for opening the door for innovation in the general-purpose IDE space that created what is frankly a golden age compared to the century prior. Heck, the command palette has bled into tools well outside the scope of developer tools these days and it’s probably my favorite UX pattern in modern complex software. To any Vim users preparing to inform me about how much better Vim is these days, I’d argue that we still owe ST for raising the expectations that developers have of their editors.