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by robotmlg 1104 days ago
Say what you want about BBEdit no longer being useful in the modern era, but whenever I have to work with a multi-megabyte file that my IDE chokes on, BBEdit can open it no problem.
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I’ve used BBEdit ages ago, but these days SublimeText is fine as well. And perhaps even better (again, not sure since I haven’t used BBEdit for ages).

From my experience SublimeText handles large files fine, but I never really tried to open multi-gigabyte size files.

I love SublimeText, it’s my favorite text editor and also multiplatform, so I have the same experience and tools on macOS, Windows & Linux.

The killer feature of Sublime for me is cross platform. I am stuck in Windows at work, and I have a Mac at home. I don’t need to have to think where I am each time I edit text.
Nearly all the research code for my lab is written in BBEdit.
yeah I never use BBEdit day to day but I have it installed in my drive for those times where I have to wrangle big files.