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I still feel both Sublime and VSC are steps back in productivity over TM. The casualness of going from a simple notepad-like window to project-IDE meant small ideas could grow without getting caught up in the boilerplate. Too bad it got left in the dust.

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I've been using TextMate as daily driver until earlier this year. As a pure text editor it just can't be beat in terms of little features (native macOS, keybindings, unsaved file are handling, multiple caret editing, etc), but it is lacking as IDE in the modern day without treesitter or lsp support. After trying multiple different editors I ended up with Zed which comes closes for me.

I'm still using Sublime Text every day. For me it strikes the right balance between casualness, speed and productivity without too much clutter. Just a few plugins: SublimeLinter (Eslint), LSP TypeScript + Copilot and some syntax highlighting packages.

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