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Discussion on: My Journey to the Vast World of Text Editors

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Perry Donham

I understand the appeal of Sublime as a text editor. In the courses I teach, though, I watch students struggle when it comes time to debug their apps in Sublime (mainly MEAN stack, some Ruby/Rails, some Python/Flask). I recommend the JetBrains family of IDEs (which are free for students) but there's usually a handful who for some reason prefer a text editor.

Integrated development environments are named that for a reason...the integration takes care of most the effort involved in building and debugging apps.