Sublime is probably the first GUI text editor that left me satisfied. Everything else over the years was either non-portable, slow or lacking features. After two months of use I just had to buy it, it's worth the price.
- It's fast and responsive, can handle large files and personally I've never seen it leaking memory or crashing
- Love the goto anything and command palette, brilliant
- Text editing is great and can be easily enhanced with existing plugins
- Theming is great
- Project handling is a bit weird, but once you get the hang of it it's fantastic
I don't do use IDE-like features (auto-complete, linting, compiling, etc.) nor integration features (version control for example) so I can't say how it fares in that aspect.
Recently I tried VSCode and Atom. They are portable and feature rich out of the box, but God are they slow and memory hungry. I can definitely see the appeal for web devs but it doesn't work for me, I value responsiveness above all else (that's the main reason I avoid dedicated IDEs)
- It's fast and responsive, can handle large files and personally I've never seen it leaking memory or crashing
- Love the goto anything and command palette, brilliant
- Text editing is great and can be easily enhanced with existing plugins
- Theming is great
- Project handling is a bit weird, but once you get the hang of it it's fantastic
I don't do use IDE-like features (auto-complete, linting, compiling, etc.) nor integration features (version control for example) so I can't say how it fares in that aspect.
Recently I tried VSCode and Atom. They are portable and feature rich out of the box, but God are they slow and memory hungry. I can definitely see the appeal for web devs but it doesn't work for me, I value responsiveness above all else (that's the main reason I avoid dedicated IDEs)