[gnuvince]

So, in a few thousand words, the author manages to give multiple reasons not to use Vim and not a single one to use Sublime Text, except this:

> But Sublime has things Vim can never have. It’s the new hotness and has a more active community than Vim does.

"Things Vim can never have"? Details please. "It's the new hotness"? Yeah, because I choose my software based on its hip factor rather than its suitability to do what I need.

[eudox]

>It's the new hotness

These people are the reason we are going to spend the next twenty years cleaning up after these two-week fad languages/frameworks.

[hazz]

Sublime Text is 6 years old. While not comparable to the age of vim or emacs, it's not exactly a "2 week fad" piece of software.

[coldtea]

>"Things Vim can never have"? Details please.

He gave several, did you read the article?

A proper extension mechanism for one.

A GUI that's not just monospaced fonts (or just some stylized buttons triggering functions, as Gvim, MacVim etc).

Ans lots of other things. As a matter of fact, a team even started refactoring Vim itself a few months ago, because they feel the current code doesn't cut it and they want to have a codebase that can be properly extended and get rid of all the legacy cruft.

[ignu]

"i love relearning a new editor every two years"

[yen223]

With Vim, you can spend two years learning an editor!