Now, this isn’t going to be about me ragging on VS Code. Heck, I was on of the few people that liked the Windows phone UI, but if you are on a Mac it just feels a little off. Now there is nothing inherently wrong with a ‘Windows’ feel. This is most obvious when you switch to a new file, when there’s a horrid FOUC, just before the syntax highlighting kicks in. And it feels slow to navigate the interface. Yes, it has (almost) every feature you could possibly want. VS Code feels slowĭespite the near complete domination of VS Code in the hearts and minds of developers as I write this, I just can’t stick with it. And why I always come back to Sublime Text. Generally, the length of time I stuck with an editor was directly proportional to the speed, or perceived speed, of the interface.Īnd that brings me to the blue elephant in the room. Through all that, the value I have appreciated beyond all else is speed. Plus brief looks at things like Atom and Brackets and no doubt some others I’ve forgotten about. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of editors I have used for some period of time: I’ve been using a text editors daily for a long time. But I’ve also used text editors to write books, articles and even screenplays. I spend the majority of my working life in a text editor so seeing how a product solves the same problems I understand well is fascinating to me. I’m a sucker for spending time with new code editors. Want to watch the YouTube version? My text editor history It just always feels instant.īut right now, if you took Sublime away from me, and made me pick another editor, it would be Panic’s Nova. ‘Pound for pound’, in my book, when it comes to text editors, nothing beats Sublime Text for the feeling of speed.
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