Is Sublime Text 3 worth using?

[preexus]

What is a better alternative from a Web Development perspective?

[facelessuser]

Try it out and see for your self. You don’t have to pay to try it.

[Paapaa]

Some very good alternatives are: Atom and Visual Studio Code. Both are 100% free, under fast development and widely used by web dev professionals.

I like the fact that both of them incorporate an integrated Git support + tools. Sublime should IMO have more packages in the core distribution. Git being one of the most important. And the whole package manager.

[deathaxe]

under fast development

… which is quite easy with a multi billion dollar company with thousands of employed devs in the background.

But in the end none of them is as fast as ST as they are using heavy loaded “Web browser engines” to create a text editor. Gigs of RAM are used to edit files of some bytes of size. Terrible!

[Paapaa]

… which is quite easy with a multi billion dollar company with thousands of employed devs in the background.[/quote]

I don’t really care what is the reason. The bottom line is that they have a lot more resources to make a steady flow of development. That is a huge plus.

[quote=“deathaxe, post:4, topic:29638, full:true”]But in the end none of them is as fast as ST as they are using heavy loaded “Web browser engines” to create a text editor. Gigs of RAM are used to edit files of some bytes of size. Terrible!

“Gigs of RAM”?? That is of course total nonsense. And the speed difference is starting to be quite insignificant. Startup is getting faster - and doesn’t really matter if you don’t shutdown your computer constantly. They have also improved the UI speed. What is enough is of course a personal preference.

So I’m not surprised why developers are using more and more Atom or VC. The whole “IT IS A WEB BROWSER” argument is quite odd to me. If the tool does the job for you reliably it really doesn’t matter what the tool is made of.

Bottom line is that there are free alternatives to ST3 which are in some ways even better editors. And that is a very good situation which should benefit the users of all editors. I really think people should try alternatives every now and then to see the current situation.