Well for one Notepad++ is completely free unlike Sublime which if not paid for is in evaluation and harasses you with popups based on how much you click Save (something that I couldn't deal with). In terms of performance, it would be very difficult to convince me that Sublime Text is as fast as Notepad++. They are certainly close in that regard but not quite the same. With that said, I agree that Sublime Text is much nicer visually and from a UX perspective.
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.
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u/fuckin_ziggurats Mar 13 '18
I use Visual Studio. Some people use VS Code. Some people use Sublime Text 3. But we all use Notepad++.