Sublime Text

“Sublime has great search and instant startup time, which makes it perfect for doing small patches around AI-written code”

“which is old, and a pain in the ass, but at least is not being actively enshittified”

“Sad about the slow plugin host churn- given how relatively unpopular the host app is, a lot of plugins will are abandoned”

“It was so nice recently to come back to ST after several years of increasingly bloated IDEs.”

“Even though Sublime Text is my primary editor and I have no intention to change”

“The business is healthy and there is consistent work being done by a small but dedicated team.”

“Sublime Text is not aligned with an 'any minute now' pivot to enshittification.”

“it was deprecated a few months ago because the runtime it was using was no longer supported”

“Sublime does everything I need it to do and it does it faster and cleaner and just better than the alternatives.”

“I never stopped using Sublime, I've tried all sorts of new/modern text editors and always revert back.”

“The value you get for a sublime text+merge is so much higher than whatever you'd get by paying for an equivalent cost”

“If you want an editor without the bullshit try Sublime as it has a history of staying that way”

“The reason I still stick to Sublime is just because the alternatives that are similar are much much slower.”

“I have ever had as seamless, high-flow of a development environment as I do now using Nim with Sublime on Mint at work.”

“give me a simple editor like Sublime and ask me to make a web page - even with JavaScript - and it's my happy place”

“I keep going back to Sublime Text when everything in VS Code becomes too much.”

“It feels like a massive disaster just waiting to happen. They don't even run their own package marketplace”

“things like mouse-down to activate a tab (vs mouse-up in Zed) make Sublime feel faster”

“when I give them money they haven’t given me reason to believe they’re going to waste that money”

“Sublime Text is pretty stable and the kind of program you could probably get away without updating for some time”

“Sublime just doesn't get in your way, it's super fast, super configurable and has the perfect amount of features”

“it isn't a resource hog, runs fast, launches fast, and it doesn't try to be anything but a text editor”

“its ecosystem has collapsed, a lot of plugins haven't had an update in over 5 years”

“i get a popup every time i try to do anything telling me i must upgrade and pay again”

“in sublime if you use the goto panel and highlight a file it will immediately show a preview”

“Sublime, although lacking in features, feels considerably more polished and performant.”

“Multiple cursors were the killer feature that got me to start using Sublime Text back in ~2010.”

“I've found multiple cursors a really powerful tool for ad-hoc transformations on snippets of semi-structured text”

“a product that never compromises but also never evolves is indistinguishable, to the world, from one that simply gave up”

“Sublime Text and outliners such as Bike and OmniOutliner make moving and indenting lines easy with keyboard shortcuts”

“I think it's better than Notepad++ and is available for all computer platforms, not just Windows.”

“There is some market for highly optimized apps like e.g. Sublime Text, but you can clearly see that the companies behind them are struggling.”

“the breaking straw was how they'd silo off critical bug fixes in new versions that were pay-only”

“it makes rearrangement easier by moving lines up or down with keyboard shortcuts in a text editor like Sublime Text”

“sublime had and probably still has a huge userbase, its fast startup and flexibility”

“More modern editors like Sublime Text, Kate, or even Notepad have an advantage of being intuitive.”

“Sublime comes into play when I open huge codebases and multi-gigabyte dataset files.”

“Huge thanks to the people behind Zed and Sublime for actively pushing in the opposite direction!”

“They can be as simple as a single .py file. No dependencies install step, no meta files, no rituals to go through.”

“its ecosystem died five ish years ago, its package repository is a lot of "last updated 10 years ago"”