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> It probably depends a lot on company... Absolutely. I am not suggesting ST is dead. It's just 10-12 years ago ST2 was big hype online. Hyped to the point tha

> It probably depends a lot on company... Absolutely. I am not suggesting ST is dead. It's just 10-12 years ago ST2 was big hype online. Hyped to the point that likes of Vi (or even emacs) users were moving over to it! Today, I hardly hear about it online. It is VS Code, even in the office. I am sure if I was in the same room 10 years ago, it would be the same.. just ST2. :-) I wonder what the "cool" thing is in the next 10 years. Likely be saying the same thing about VS Code over the next "cool kid" Maybe other dev culture (php devs, for example) that I have not been part of are mostly using ST2/3/4.

n4r9 3y ago
I'm totally with you insofar as ST isn't used much as a full IDE. But it's a great as a background text editor and I'd be surprised if not many people use it for that. I use it to keep a TODO list, analyse and manipulate log files, record temporary notes, and edit big JSON packets. Tasks like "extract all lines which include this phrase, and then delete the first 10 characters" are straightforward. Also it's minimal, clean and feels spacious out of the box. VS Code probably has similar features, but has a much bigger memory footprint, takes longer to start up, and looks more cluttered. If you're already a dotnet shop with VS Pro/Enterprise subscriptions then it makes more sense to use ST.