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Discussion on: Best IDE’s and Text Editors!

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Alek

I've been dancing around Sublime Text and VS Code through 2021. Sublime was my go to because back when I started coding that was THE go to compared to today's VS Code.

I don't regret paying for Sublime Text's license at all, the UX is definitely great and there's some shortcuts that I've gotten used to from it that have made it hard to get me to switch fully to VS Code. Sublime 4 also released recently and it just feels smoother to me in terms of UI and UX; VS Code in comparison feels too visually loaded for me at times.

I do love VS Code in terms of features though. If a package existed for Sublime, someone already worked something out for VS Code. Not to mention the integrated terminal and very easy to set up the terminal commands; which requires considerably more set up in Sublime. VS Code makes some things just work and the intellisense is amazing.

I've been curious about Vim, but because there is an extension (for VS Code) or package (for Sublime) that allows you to use its keybinds on each of the editors. So you can increase your efficiency further by combining it with another editor, and on top of that it makes it simpler to switch between editors at your leisure because you're only worrying about a single set of keybinds. It's also very useful to know how to use a cli editor in case you need to do a quick and dirty edit while SSHing into a server, remote machine or just GUI-less set up. Many people will say that Vim is tough to learn, but it pays it's dividends in equal measure.

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KUMAR HARSH

Yes there are extensions to get the shortcuts of every editor including Sublime and VIm on VS Code so that people can easily switch without facing any difficulties.

I am currently trying to learn CLI, as it will come handy in the future.