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Any Sublime Text plugin? I can't stand how distracting VS code is.

Rare to find a fellow ST4 user these days

Fellow ST4 user checking in. It does everything VSCode does (minus remote development, which I don't need) with 1/4 of the resource usage. Just a quality piece of software that I'll keep using for as long as I can.

Does SFTP + Git on ST4 not count as remote development? Cause i am using them as my remote development stack.

Sublime has devcontainer support?

We’re here.

You guys have ST4?? I'm still with 3 because that's what I paid for..as an "lifetime licence" if remembering correctly

I also paid for ST3, but I switched to ST4 for the hardware accelerated rendering. I don't like their licensing policy anymore, so I just dismiss the purchase signs. I want to get my company to pay for it because paying 100 USD _again_ is just absurd for me.

I have no plans to switch off though. This is still a heck of a lot faster than the alternatives

There are dozens of us! Though for serious work I'll sometimes reluctantly switch to VSCode due to Sublimes language integrations always feeling hacked on.

And lately Sublime has been mysteriously freezing and crashing my other programs (though it might be Windows' fault, unclear) so I've reluctantly started developing my own editor...

Janky LSP support is easily Sublime's biggest weakness. Hope they fix it in ST5 if that ever happens

I use it everyday and have no desire to switch to vscode.

Out of curiosity how do you find it to be distracting

Things moving, such as plugins updating. little lines in code files telling you when the code was changed, etc.

My config of vscode made it as minimalistic as sublime.

Did VScode became also more responsive?

VSCode used to be great, but now it feels garbage, or was it garbage all the time?

I used it because it was faster than WebStorm, but WebStorm was always just better. Now it seems VSCode is as slow as WebStorm, but is still garbage in everything.

I use VSCode for Python programming with Python for data science related tasks (never used for web design). I especially like Python interactive mode: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

It will be interesting to hear from other people why they do not like VSCode for data science related tasks.

I wonder if [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/) suffers from same issues

They recently made it so you can drag tabs into their own windows (the issue was open for a decade), which makes it actually a respectable editor (despite the startup lag).

I wouldn’t say so, it’s still bloated but it’s hidden. The only change is that the ui is very minimal, like sublime.

My extensions is still there and I can access everything through shortcuts or the command palette.

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