[jbob2000]

Multiple cursors in Sublime Text. Made it incredibly easy to do repetitive edits to json data or html templates. VS Code does a better job of cursor management now, but I think that was inspired by sublime text.

Language and date time services like Moment and i18n. Huge productivity gains from having off the shelf solutions for multi-language features.

Node.js and Express got rid of all the cruft from backend API development. It’s a breeze to spin up a new API, whereas years prior needed a fairly strict environment setup to run reliably.

[bombcar]

Reminds me that "columnar select" like BBEdit has is amazingly useful when dealing with tabular data.

https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/faqs.html#rectangle