Sublime Text Build 4213

KazaNLP•about 1 hour ago

I miss ST but I can’t go back after working almost exclusively in VSC for a year. ST is for serious DIYers

ivandenysov•about 1 hour ago

What are some reasons to pick Sublime Text over Zed for someone not familiar with either?

dsego•35 minutes ago

Zed pretty much copied everything over from Sublime, so it's pretty much on par. Sublime was one of the first editors to have an uncluttered UI without toolbars, but with advanced features, like multi-cursor editing and the command palette. As a long time sublime users, it still feels superior as it gets lots of small details right, like for example when I do Cmd+P to search for files and scroll through the files it will show a preview, Zed doesn't show a preview until you actually select the file.

sleepybrett•28 minutes ago

cough textmate

piva00•7 minutes ago

Yup, I used TextMate a lot back in the early 2000s, and Sublime from around 2010 and bought a license maybe a year later.

To this day I always install Sublime on my new machines, it's the perfect text editor for my needs: fast and snappy, buffers are persistent so I can use as a scratch pad without having to save files, can customise with plugins if needed, the command palette gives quite a bit of power user features.

I mostly use it as a scratch pad nowadays, like if I'm debugging something, collecting a bunch of text from different places to reference quickly, nothing too advanced (nor directly related to coding) and is still one of the most satisfying programs to use on my day-to-day. It's basically always open, just waiting for a new buffer.

chao-•11 minutes ago

Technically correct. However, for the majority of humans, their first encounter with these features and behaviors could never be TextMate, and instead would be Sublime Text. TextMate never growing to be cross-platform is a major reason for Sublime Text's early growth.

leecommamichael•25 minutes ago

For me? I already have Sublime Text installed, it works great, and has never not worked great.

kunley•15 minutes ago

Ditto

kzalesak•about 1 hour ago

Sublime text is what notepad++ wished to be. There are many tasks that do not require a full IDE, not even vscode and sublime just works. Always, consistently, reliably works, is fast and a joy to use.

boundless88•14 minutes ago

If you're using AI to write code, IDE features don't really seem that important anymore.

bpev•12 minutes ago

Don't have any metrics or anything, but I use both, and anecdotally, I feel like Sublime is snappier and gives me better battery life.

open_•17 minutes ago

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

And whatever it does, it does better than Zed, debatably.

mcrk•about 1 hour ago

If you need to ask this question, that means there is no difference for you. Just choose one and commit.

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