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I honestly thought Sublime Text went to join Textmate in the editor afterlife.

What are you using? I've always felt that Sublime Text has had a pretty decent update schedule. I like it myself, but if there are any better editors out there (besides the usual Vim, Emacs, Nano, &c...), I'd definitely appreciate a recommendation : )

I paid for Sublime Text, but started using VS Code, and haven't looked back since.

This is my same experience. I even install VS Code on remote machines and just use X Forwarding, works pretty well thus far.

I still keep Sublime around as my sorta notes editor where I keep opening new tabs for different things cause everytime I close it (despite not saving anything) it comes back with everything I have, then I wipe all the tabs after a while.

If ST3 had the plugin ecosystem that VS Code has I wouldn't mind using it again. I think ST3 needs to make itself have a much more powerful plugin architecture.

With VS Code I get so much out of the box, with ST3 I have to install the plugin management (I think they might of changed this to be installed by default in more recent versions idr).

To whoever works on either ST3 or VS Code: Thank you, you guys do great work!

VS Code is what most people have moved on to in my experience

I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code[1]. It doesn’t feel as snappy as Sublime Text but the features and extensions make up for it.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com

Same here. I want to go back to Sublime but I had some serious issues getting my linting plugins to work properly, eventually I gave up and it all works out of the box with VS Code, despite it not being as fast.

VS Code here too, but, I do miss the snappiness of Sublime, e.g. in startup. VS Code feels like half an IDE in terms of startup time.

I still fire up intellij IDEA from time to time though, it's a huuuge difference. That one has noticeable typing lag and such too, very annoying :/.

If there's an IDEA developer here, please make it so that the editor and typing rendering thing is NEVER blocked by ANYTHING, EVER. I'm noticing it's trying to do some work (autocomplete? error detection?) while I type and it's causing notable delays in typing and rendering.

I never consider VS Code a text editor but a lightweight IDE, and if they marketed it as such I think it would remove the "ew whys this taking so long" mentality.

As for IDEA, what OS / hardware do you use it from? Depending on that + how it's configured are all factors. I rarely get JetBrains IDE lockups anymore (on Linux) I only ever see lockups when I'm on Windows with ReSharper + VS 2017, and yes, they do SUCK.

If I remember correctly, IDEA has a zero latency typing mode:

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

It's enabled by-default now.

Interesting you say that, in the dev shop where I work practically all the devs and ops people use sublime text as their editor of choice, I think there’s a couple that use vim.

When developers don't want to pay for their tools that is usually what happens.

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