Ask HN: What is better text editor than Sublime Text?

Completely depends on the context. VS Code and Notepad++ are far better for my use cases than Sublime Text; the one use-case that keeps Sublime Text on my machine (and for which I bought a license!) is viewing and parsing log files that are more than 100 MB in size. The performance of Microsoft's Electron app is too sluggish for that and Sublime's search tools are far better than Notepad++'s built in tools. So in my workflow Sublime Text is the fourth most commonly used (behind vim) but it still has an important use so I keep it in the toolbox.

May I ask you: you look for better in which perspectives? I switched to Sublime Text approximately 6 years ago. All of my team mates used ST as well. Recently they all switched to PHP Storm, VSCode, even Emacs. (I don´t really know their motivation.)

Today I am the only fossil at the company with ST. Instead of looking for a "better" one, I made ST better for me, installing the right packages, syntax color schemes, creating snippets. Now I have a fully functional IDE, including Terminal, linters, file manager, git client and so on.

Our team moved to VS Code for Typescript and some older PHP, works really really well, and seems to be the 'industry standard' I'd say. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t... results show same - 74.5% of respondents use VS Code.

I enjoy these very much, and for different reasons: vim, kate, vscode.

On windows, it is also vim, vscode and notepad++.

Back in the olden days, I enjoyed UltraEdit32 a LOT, it also allowed me to open files over FTP and edit them online, which was so cool for doing PHP and HTML, just edit, save, and refresh the browser to see your changes, a feedback loop of about one second.

VSCode, Notepad++, gedit, nano, vi. It's up to you really, our use cases and preferences won't match yours.

Test a few out and see what fits with your needs from a text editor.

Neovim.