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Been using it as my main editor for the past 3 years now, coming from Sublime Text. It's been a great editor so far, but it's missing a lot of modern features, and the plugin support seems to be next to none.


I must be weird because I see a major divide in editors. CLI editors are for light text editing and don’t need plugins. Updating a line in a config file, etc. I’ve never even wished for a plug-in for them. IDEs need plugins. They’re for coding.

(I know some people use vim or emacs for coding, with 1000 amazing plugins, but I think deep down they’re masochists in the first place, especially vim.)


I tried to use vscode, but I hated the high CPU usage. My laptop literally gets warm when scrolling through code. And fan go brrrrr


I think people who reach for an IDE are deep down spoiled brats who need everything on a platter.


Why did you leave Sublime?


I use Sublime daily exclusively for quick notes and as a scratch pad/clipboard. What I have started noticing recently and what worries me is that with only the most basic Markdown plugins it now uses 1 GB of RAM and is somewhat less snappy than it used to. I really hope it goes away soon but with other editors getting more resource-heavy, I am worried.


I have tens of files open in ST right now and it's using 16 MB of RAM. I'd suggest some tests without the plugins you are describing.


>I'd suggest some tests without the plugins you are describing.

How is this useful if you want to use those plugins?


"Please purchase a sublime text license" popup every 15 saves. Been about 5 years since I last used it.


Sublime has syntax highlighting, but no analysis or refactoring features


It has support for LSP, with plugins that integrate the various language servers out there.


Since when? I can't get Sublime to do anything useful. Have a link?



It's an alternative to nano, not to vsc.




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