But the advantage was that it was open source, backed by a big company with active developers, and easy to access which meant it had a bunch of plugins and stuff ready to go and because it was being developed more actively people slowly started moving to it. So then GitHub released Atom which was more or less a sublime clone, but it was built on technology that was inherently slower than sublime. The main problem with sublime was that 5-6 years ago, development seemed to be on pause and because it was closed source, people couldn't go in and help fix the problems. enhanced text editor that Atom and vscode were trying to mimic. They all are just a click away from the Command Palette. If you are interested, just reply to this post and I can link you the most useful plugins for web dev in SublimeText. If you check on the Internet right now, you will most likely see VS Code extensions that are recommended for that and that some if not most have an equivalent in SublimeText. Web Development with Sublime? Definitely. It is still supported in commercial extensions and programs. What matters are the ones that will help your productivity. Having more plugins or extensions doesn't matter. SublimeText still has customers and dedicated followers. It's easy to use and works out of the box. That said, if you work as a dev or have gotten paid before for web related job, you can afford the license easily. You can use SublimeText forever without paying. With everyone jumping to VS Code, will those plugins be maintained? My final thought is, you could probably get ST set up to your liking and with similar bells and whistles that VS Code offers but that would likely be a painful process. I opened the same file in ST and it opened instantaneously. The other day I had to look at a 28MB CSV file and wanted to do in an IDE. I don't think VS Code will ever match the performance, speed, and low memory consumption of ST. I hate to say it, but I'm sold on VS Code. I'm a JS/PHP developer and having the IDE clean things up for me on save actually allows me to move faster and confidently. I made a deal that I would try out VS Code for one week.
I was jealous of a few things they had (Prettier) but I was able to blow their mind with the speed and other aspects of ST. I started a new job about 2 years ago and everyone was using VS Code.
I've been a long time user and fan of ST. I guess my question is, is Sublime Text better than Visual Studio Code for Web development, and is the license worth its hefty price tag? I like intellisense and Powershell terminals directly in the same window, but apart from that I haven't been using much of it differently than I would a "normal" text editor. I am not at all married to Visual Studio Code. I believe there's also a free tier and a paid tier (or some licensing of some kind). I gathered (perhaps erroneously?) that Sublime Text does not do code verification, perhaps not intellisense either, and I think you cannot debug either (please correct me if I'm wrong). At first I thought it was like Notepad++, but people seem to compare it more with Atom or Visual Studio Code. However, I've seen websites about Sublime Text, and people seem to really enjoy it. I have been using Visual Studio Code for this short time (a few weeks) I had to use Visual Studio in my previous job, so it was kind of a "natural" path for me I guess. I have a quick question about Sublime Text.