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Discussion on: Why do you still use Sublime?

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Vincent Milum Jr

I use Sublime Text daily for everything. It is smaller, faster, and right to the point. It is a text editor with zero cruft to get in the way. And yes, it also has quite the extensive extension community. It also doesnt NEED as much extensions to get things working great though, especially as many of those vscode extensions are of low quality and often buggy.

Every time I've tried any other editor, without fail, some THING of some sort will get in the way of doing just basic text editing, which is the ultimate goal of these applications. To me, time is extremely valuable, and nothing has come even remotely close to the simplicity and time saving features of Sublime Text.

For me, its just not worth the time investment to re-learn an entirely different editor that actively has features that get in the way of doing my job, an editor that has done everything they can to attempt to clone every feature of Sublime Text, but not as elegantly, just for the sake of using what is now deemed "popular"

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Ben Sinclair

It is smaller, faster

Than what? Other editors in general or the VSCode OP favours?

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Vincent Milum Jr

For pretty much everything. It loads instantly, it never hitches, even when working on files of hundreds of megabytes in size (yes, sometimes I need to work with large logs of results sets). And it handles all of this on every operating system, including FreeBSD.

For reference, I've used quite the number of editors over the years, formerly being a Visual Studio user (pre-dating VSCode by well over a decade)