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At this point: What does Sublime Text offer that hasn't been superseded by VS Code and/or Atom?

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It’s not written in JavaScript.

Seriously, using native C++ gives it a real performance boost over the other two editors.

At some point many of us considered VSCode "dead on arrival", either because "Microsoft" or because "electron".

What does VS Code offer over Sublime besides a massive marketing budget? I absolutely love Sublime, it has never occurred to me to even try the Electron based alternatives.

The out-of-box "IDE" features it provides (esp. for working with JS/TS projects) is amazing. I still struggle to reproduce that experience with various plugins on Sublime.

Thats pretty much it for me. Everyone keeps saying that the performance issue is a myth, but I still experience a very noticeable lag with VSCode, and that keeps me from using it as my main editor.

Sometimes, less is more. I completely agree that if you do need IDE-like features, then Sublime is most likely not for you, and any plugin trying to replicate those features falls pretty flat. But if you're doing simple file editing, I much prefer Sublime Text as it's faster and the UI much cleaner, not bloated with hundreds of buttons and options and huge context menus for things I'll never need.

A lot of IDEs have silly limitations about creating projects or files. I like being able to open a blank scratch file on Sublime, set the syntax mode if I need to, and start editing text right away. The half a second to open is also amazing.

I've tried them, you're not missing anything unless you like typing lag, appalling scrolling performance, syntax highlighting that happens several seconds after you've opened a file etc. etc.

Sublime is nowhere in terms of add-ons / language integration compare to VScode, without that it's pretty much useless. Sublime is just a better looking Notepad++

In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on extensive IDE support.

Oh sure it's useless. I only use it for all my work, but okay. Nice opinion.

Sublime Text loads up instantly.

Also VS Code is the only text editor that I know of where common file encoding bugs [1] are not a priority.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?utf8=&q=is%3Aissu...

I haven't compared it recently, but Sublime text was much faster than VS Code in lots of scenarios, and especially with large files.

Speed for one, though most people seems to not care much about this, I personally can't stand the very much perceivable lag while using VS Code / Atom.

And multi-cursor editing is still the best on ST.

I personally use vim as my main editor, and the ST for the occasional batch text-editing. Though the out-of-box experience of VSCode is really good.

It's native. That's the big one for me as someone that doesn't care much for having electron apps littering my machine.

It's not an editor filled with JavaScript bloat.

Lower latency [1]

[1] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

this was a fascinating read, i really didn't think that much of typing latency before taking a look at that.

Besides the obvious speed, Sublime has the best-looking font rendering of all editors.

Might be a minor detail, but all text always looks great.

It's much faster and uses less CPU and usually less RAM.

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