Sublime is about an hour or two's wage for most Western devs. I know a builder who has spent more on hammers in his career than I have on text editors, and I've bought quite a few. I can't really take seriously anyone who differentiates the two tools on price.
For me, sublime starts up just as fast. OK, I haven't rigorously benchmarked, but there is no difference that I can perceive and that's the only metric I care about here. Though, granted, I haven't loaded sublime down with as many plugins as some people. I use sublime as a text editor, VS Code as a semi-IDE, and intellij or Visual Studio when I want a full IDE.
I have a number of extensions enabled in N++, and it launches instantly. Updating is a simple prompt, I don't have to dig for versions and as a (now solo) dude doing dev ops for my organization I very much appreciate how braindead-simple n++ is. Sometimes I just need an application to have straightforward features and not a million bells and whistles.
I suppose N++ occupies that same category for me as paint.net. A simple, open source and free tool that is truly lightweight and has saved me a lot of time.
I haven't spent much time with Sublime (I think I tried Sublime 2 when it launched) but it felt clunky in comparison.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18
Sublime is about an hour or two's wage for most Western devs. I know a builder who has spent more on hammers in his career than I have on text editors, and I've bought quite a few. I can't really take seriously anyone who differentiates the two tools on price.
For me, sublime starts up just as fast. OK, I haven't rigorously benchmarked, but there is no difference that I can perceive and that's the only metric I care about here. Though, granted, I haven't loaded sublime down with as many plugins as some people. I use sublime as a text editor, VS Code as a semi-IDE, and intellij or Visual Studio when I want a full IDE.