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by bcherny 3562 days ago
Does Sublime still exist? With all the hubub about VSCode and Atom, I've sort of forgotten about it.
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>Does Sublime still exist?

Did you even click the link? This is an update changelog...

Having said that, while competitors have popped up like Visual Studio Code which is pretty darn good, Sublime was one of the first text editors that I used years ago when the landscape was primarily dominated by Dreamweaver and TextMate. It was a step-up from Notepad++ which many open source lovers used, but lacked the finesse that ST brought to the table. When it comes to opening large files, especially large SQL dumps >1gb, Sublime Text is still the king in my opinion. I still occasionally need to do a find and replace on a large file and nothing beats Sublime Text (except maybe command line editors like Vi/Vim, which I can't use).

I primarily focus on front-end development nowadays, so I primarily use Webstorm, but if I need to write some Markdown, edit some PHP/Python or edit large files, Sublime is still my go-to. Such a shame people think you need to update something every day to keep using it, ST has been incredibly stable for years now. Even ST3 which was in beta for years has been quite stable.

I meant it sarcastically, not literally.

I used ST2/3 daily for a few years before switching to Webstorm, Atom, and then to VSCode :)

The cadence of updates in Atom/VSCode far outpaces that of ST, making it easy to forget that the latter exists.

> Did you even click the link? This is an update changelog...

They haven't exactly been keeping to a regular update schedule.

So not hard to blame people for wondering if it was abandoned or not.

Also not unreasonable to expect people to take a glance at the article they are commenting on.
And it's still improving quite a bit (syntax definition files seem much better than on the atom editors, etc)