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I know you're joking, but as a US dev I am very well compensated, and I don't even blink at giving JetBrains a hundred bucks a year for IntelliJ. Good tools make my life better.

I'm not a sublime user, but if I was, if it was critical to my workflow, I would absolutely pay for it.

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As a tiny company, with a fantastic product, I'm sure Sublime has a lot of loyal customers who continue to pay for new versions.

Competing with VSCode is not really possible, or necessary.

I paid for it as a college student a decade ago. I literally did all my coursework in it, it felt like a no-brainer to throw some money at a company that made a great product that I relied on.

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