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by ry_ry 2776 days ago
I've always been a huge fan of sublime, i use it daily as a text editor. It's largely a visual clipboard for me.

However as a development environment its lacking. The interface for installing and configuring plugins is needlessly arcane, and whilst it's fast I find myself defaulting to vscode for pure productivity reasons. I don't even particularly like vscode - largely electron snobbishness tbh - but it's the best to for my particular job (frontend dweeb for a well known site with a very modern stack)

I've used intellij, visual studio, vscode, sublime and dozens of other apps extensively professionally as my day to day (eclipse and atom were low points) and all have their merits but as a fast, easy, cohesive environment that is easily setup a combination of zsh and vscode is absolutely my goto the days.

Edit. People calling vscode bloated does amuse me though. it's not exactly vim but it's a million miles away from its bigger brother.