There is only a handful of software (outside of games) that I'll shell out my own personal funds for. This is one of them. This is one of the few text editors that can handle stupid large files nicely. It 'remembers' what you have open, even if you don't save - so if the IT department does that random patch, you don't lose anything. Syntax highlighting and tool plugins, so it can make for a reasonable light weight code editor. The experience on Linux, OSX, and Windows is the same. The ability to do vertical column selection and insertion makes it crazy easy to make quick and dirty scripts with copy/paste data from other sources.

I still daily drive Sublime. I haven’t found an editor with less latency. It’s so fast and so consistent. VS Code feels like Eclipse in comparison.

Developer at Sublime HQ here, pleasant surprise to see this stable build reach the front page :)

If you have any questions related to ST or otherwise feel free to ask.

Add me to the list of folks who choose Sublime over VSCode as their main editor. It is much faster and less bogged down by the inherent bloat of VSCode. I find that I prefer CLI utilities over VSCode extensions anyway, so everything works out in the end.

Also Sublime-LSP is awesome.

I recently saw there was a new Clojure plugin for Sublime Text called Sublime Clojure by Tonsky: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-clojure

In his documentation he mentions that he made the plugin in part because he did not want Paredit mandated by a plugin. I was curious to see what kind of structural editing he used instead, so I tuned into one of his streams. Turns out he just writes raw lisp in sublime text, and he's fast as hell at it too.

Since then I've been trying out using Sublime for Clojure development and falling back on Intellij when I need anything more than basic inline/REBL debugging, and I'm very happy with it so far.

everyone's mentioning the speed (as they should), but I also prefer sublimeText for the GUI (or lack thereof). After a decade of using it, the keyboard shortcuts are also hardwired into my soul.

I also started using sublime Merge recently and I think I may feel the same way about it

I have a feeling that the recent move to OpenGL rendering for Sublime was a mistake. I know, we did with Firefox and WebRender as well. And yet, when compiling a heavy project on a modern machine, I can scroll fine in Firefox, but Sublime chugs, becoming unusable. For Sublime, it should be assumed that some code is compiling all the time!

I still use Sublime for when I want to visually edit each line of large text files. I find the performance to be superior to alternatives, but it’s been a while since I’ve done a comparison.

I tried sublime this year now that it has an LSP (language server), along with the Go plugin. Maybe it would take more getting used to, but VSCode has done such a great job for coding in. Sublime's project view just wasn't as good either.

I really still like sublime for editing text or log files on my dev system, but not for development.

https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP

I recently tried Sublime again. It feels much snappier and more responsive than VS Code. Very enjoyable to use.

I love Sublime, but I've always felt like the whole "package" system is a bit of a mess. There's no consistent anywhere either, working with one build system is usually not the same as in the next one. I feel like VS Code does this part a lot better, which is why I use Sublime as a general text browser and VS Code where I do all my serious remote coding.

maybe out of nostalgia, I always have Sublime installed on my computer. nowadays if i need a draft for a copy/paste or need to annotate something fast I use Sublime, which is always running. it became something like my advanced notepad

I use sublime 3 on my linux dev box all the time & even have paid for it. there is one extremely annoying bug that keeps me periodically switching to other editors out of frustration. It happens when you have multiple desktop panes/workspaces and you are working in say pane 1 but there is a sublime window open in pane 3. now when I say sublime open a file in pane 1 I am suddenly transported to pane 3 and and the file is opened there. this is super frustrating because I lose all my mental context and focus that I now have to reacquire. if anybody from sublime is reading this please fix this ASAP.

I live in command line most of the time, but Sublime Text is always my default editor to open any text files in a GUI file manager on any operating system.

When it notified me about the version 4 license change, I was ready to make the purchase. However, it has been a while since then and, besides the "LICENSE UPGRADE REQUIRED" text on the top right corner, I still can't notice any restriction. The current installation still has my license purchased for v2 applied. I just upgraded to build 4126 today and it worked fine. Am I misunderstanding the licensing terms or is this a bug?

Really Like Sublime Text for cross platform work (especially when I need to edit code under windows). Yet, really love Nova https://nova.app/ for mac, super polished.

Though for day to day, i switched to nvim and neovide (rust frontend). Given that, I guess I spent too much money on text editors ...

I used ST 2 and 3 for almost a decade. A couple of months ago I switched to VSCode.

Yes it's slower and clunkier but the extensions ecosystem is worth it. And also features like intellisense, unused vars, automatic updates of imports on file renames, and a long etc of QOL features ST doesn't have interest or capacity in implementing.

It's been years since I used sublime text, has anything changed that users have found noteworthy since ~2016?

I have a license because I have a thing for speed and feel of Sublime. There is nothing like it.

I write my Ruby and Elixir code with it, even if I know I get better experience with other tools.

I wrote my book Deployment from Scratch with Sublime as well.

I sometimes evaluate other editors but so far always returned :).

I wished sublime text worked well with the typescript ecosystem. For example automatically importing the right file when using a symbol.

Is there any kind of remote development support (ssh, docker) in Sublime? That’s the killer feature that keeps me on VS Code.

Someone who tried ST3 and sure, it feels a bit better than Notepad++. But it's not $100 worth of better

this build always freeze on startup for me (pop os 21.10, wayland)

build 4119 works fine though

Even though I haven't met a Sublime user in a few years, it still must be popular since it's at v4. Last time I checked, Sublime was still proprietary, which is the reason I had skipped using it. I've heard Sublime has some useful features, though. If it's in their interest, I hope they decide liberate / open their source code.

E: misspelling