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Sublime success shows people do need those 0.01 seconds saved (well, actually it is often not just 0.01 seconds, but a lot more - VS Code is sometimes laggy and that's really annoying).

Sublime got completely destroyed in a single year by...an electron app (VSCODE). Chew on that. While at it I'm going to let you know why: features, open platform, plugins, ecosystem and integration. I've been a Sublime user and now I don't even have it installed any more. They share the same fate with TextMate.

That seems like a big statement, I still use ST - albeit not for everyday work (I shifted to JetBrains tools), but if I want to knock up a quick script then I will > subl file.ext to quickly knock something up.

If I have big files to open, or I want to do some text manipulation, then ST is what I reach for.

"Completely destroyed" is a bit much, maybe shifted to a different use-case for some people, but for a quick editor that offers a pretty damn good environment to work in I think it still has its place.

On the other hand, VSCode won largely by being much faster than most of the competition.

Anyway, the author wanted to write a desktop app in Rust. What's the issue with that? A few years ago, we'd have the same but "written in JS", "written in Ruby", "written in Python", ... I agree that it's more important for the author than for the end-users, of course.

Yeah not sure about that. I purchased ST recently and because VS Code is so slow.

ok, i’m glad you’ve found an editor that better suits your needs. remember, this is a preference, not a competition. personally, i much prefer the responsiveness & lower memory footprint of sublime, and couldn’t tolerate trading those off for features in atom/code.

maybe this is just the new vim/emacs war :)

What do you mean it's not a competition? They are fighting for your AppStore, for the same spot, for your attention. Sublime has pricing, Microsoft has...other interests. I would have loved for Sublime to win here but it lost. Sure there are still users of it but let's not debate here. All youtube videos and pictures I see lately from programmers are using VsCode. In fact, I haven't seen a single Sublime open in a video tutorial for over 2-3 years now. It's not even funny. Speed is important but not when we talk about a second (I'm generous here).

Powerful as an adject has lost it's meaning. Every new tool is either powerful or minimalistic. Or both. Or post-modern. There are no regular tools or software anymore.

Give me speed, low memory usage, a simil VSCode UI, plugins compatibility and I'll pay money

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