[fermienrico]

No need to go too far to find an example: Sublime Text and Sublime Merge.

While this route is probably not for quick app deployment, but boy can it kick ass when properly done in C++ with custom GUI framework.

I love Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. I love their philosophy towards software design. I love how they value user experience above everything else.

There are very few pieces of software that give you so much pleasure and joy in using them on a day to day basis.

[jayflux]

Yet so many still migrate to VSCode which is electron based. So maybe the difference you value isn’t valued enough to be worth it for most authors.

I get the point you’re making, but you might be in the minority here.

[pofjer]

Citation needed. How many exactly?

[Kovah]

You are comparing apples with pears. Sublime can't be compared to VS Code because the former is basically an advanced editor while the latter is an IDE (like PhpStorm or Atom).

And I highly doubt that many users switching from Sublime to VS Code. They use one or the other for a specific reason, like a blazing fast and distraction free editing experience in Sublime - something you do not have in VS Code or any other IDE, imo.

[wilsonnb3]

The line between advanced text editor and lightweight IDE is basically non existent.

Plenty of former sublime users are on VS code now.

[GordonS]

I use VSCode for programming (Typescript), but it's also become a great replacement for my usual native text editor (Notepad2). I love how performant yet, feature-packed and extensible it is, and since I keep my notes in Markdown format, the `yzhang.markdown-all-in-one` extension is really useful.

[pofjer]

So? Plenty of former VScode users are on Sublime, Vim or Emacs now.

I really don't get your point.

[wilsonnb3]

The person I responded too was saying that Sublime and VS Code are incomparable because they are different types of software.

I was disagreeing with his distinction between advanced text editors and lightweight IDEs.

[horse-cuddler]

This is a bit of a surprising thing for me to hear, because I found Sublime Text's user experience to be rather poor, and certainly inferior to its Electron-based competitor VS Code.

[macleginn]

I would never say “poor”, although I found myself moving from Sublime Text to VS Code for most of my projects. However, ST is undeniably so much faster. If I need to edit large files or do something quickly, I am happy that I can use it.

[O_H_E]

Have you tried searching commands with the "command Palette". It makes everything discoverable for me. I personally LOVE the UX

[O_H_E]

Sublime feels like a marriage between TUI & GUI. * Everything is controllable by keyboard * Mouse based menus for one-time usage * Command Palette is awesome and very useful * FAST * Scriptable

Really hope they can keep being profitable.

[Fnoord]

fman (fman.io) for a dual pane file manager. Utilizing Qt, proprietary, cross platform, and follows the design philosophy of Sublime Text.