🔗 Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025 via James Doyle #Development #Webdev #Sublimetext
I still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are soooo many other great editors out there. My response: there is? Because I still think Sublime Text holds up as a great editor.
https://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/
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@cory Reminds me of this 2016 article https://metafizzy.co/blog/new-tech-gets-chatter/
You don't hear about TextMate because TextMate is old. What would I tweet? Still using TextMate. Still good. TextMate's problems are well known. Its hacky solutions are documented. Most everything's been covered.
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@bw Oh I love this — exactly this!
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@cory The funny thing is, that article was talking about the Atom editor being the new tool everyone was chatting about. Fast forward to today and the Atom editor is being sunsetted by GitHub and the repository will be archived. Meanwhile, TextMate doesn't receive much activity, but as far as I know, there are no plans to archive the repo. So, in a way, TextMate outlived Atom.
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@bw It's so funny when things like that happen — I wonder if we'll see Sublime outlive VS Code in turn.
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@cory VS Code doesn't show any signs of going away anytime soon, but yeah, it definitely wouldn't shock me if Sublime outlived it. And then, of course, there is BBEdit, which has been around for ages.
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@bw Yeah, I know VS Code is the industry standard, but it feels cumbersome to me. I really don't like that Microsoft owns so much of the dev toolchain between that, TypeScript, npm. GitHub et al.
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@cory Yeah I can see that. I’m primarily a VS Code user for accessibility reasons (check this out, it is mind-blowing https://www.cursorless.org/).
But I like to pop open Nova by Panic from time to time. Also still have Sublime Text installed though I don’t use it much.
But yeah, Microsoft has a lot of power right now.
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@bw I think I've heard of Cursorless — this looks incredible! Nova is another great option and I'd readily consider it but Sublime has a richer plugin ecosystem still. I'd tried Zed, which was also quite nice but I really don't need AI integration iny my editor and their revenue model wasn't clear and that always makes me nervous.
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@cory Yeah same. No clear business model usually means bad news eventually.
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@bw Yeah — hopefully they figure something along out that isn’t extractive. I believe it’s written in Rust and was quite snappy like Sublime is.
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@cory there are dozens of us! Dozens! I love Sublime Text. It does everything I need, it’s fast and cross-platform, and I don’t want a ”copilot”
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@hejsna It remains the best option and god, not having AI wedged in is quite the selling point nowadays. Count me among the dozens.
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@cory Another happy Sublime user here! LSP support made me go back and I'm so happy for it.
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@dvk I adore it. Fast, powerful and cruft free. Stable too! Wild.
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@cory good article, I have been using sublime text for ages but I learnt some new tricks.
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@lhengstmengel I did as well — it's a fantastic tool.
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@cory inb4 vi :)
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@andreasio Hah! I've never gotten acclimated to it. Someday perhaps.
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@cory I think i am an outlier. I hardly ever use an editor. But I hate that i my server, my laptop and my corp-o-puter run different programs. There is something very nice and universal about an editor and (n)vi(m). So for simple notetaking, edit, and text manipulation, I #trustthehomerow
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@andreasio Yeah, I understand that and it is my preferred editor when I’m working in the terminal and/or on a server. Sublime’s proven to be the best, most enduring GUI for me though.
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@cory
I personally prefer Notepad++, but the fact it only works on Windows is an issue, of course.
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@ddlyh There’s always TextEdit on macOS.
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