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Sublime and the plugins

#1

Pay pay pay pay pay pay pay pay pay…

Hello all,

I wanted to get your feedback about Sublime plugins, because I have a wired feeling on them.

I noticed for Sublimerge, an excellent plugins for file comparaison, has now a PRO version for which you have to pay.
Yesterday, I noticed a PRO version of SublimeGit.

To get a full featured editor, you have to pay the editor, and pay all the good/most advanced plugins. It becomes to be expensive I think.

Two points:

  • All work deserves money
  • Price is still nothing for a professional

But for Sublime is going to be more expensive than competitor. The price is almost the price of some very good IDE. I know there are killer-features in Sublime, some very good points ( speed startup, lightweight … ), but if all plugins will be sold, maybe it’s time to consider other editor ? In my point of you, there are some features that I could sacrifice to get a cheaper editor

What do you think ?

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#2

I have absolutely no qualms paying for a plugin if it improves my workflow. I absolutely respect that people pour a lot of time into their plugins and would like a bit of something back.

SublimeGit follows Sublimes own model. Unlimited trial, but after a while you get an alert. Pay to remove it. Full features, nothing missing. I like that.

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#3

I am probably biased, but I have the feeling that most of the plugins you would pay for in the Sublime community are superior to equivalent features you may find in an IDE. Also, most IDEs tend to be big and slow(er), not have as good editor controls, and only work well for a couple of languages.

So yeah, you may end up paying more, but you hopefully are getting some of the best tools. Almost all of the paid plugins for Sublime have free equivalents, either as plugins, or as separate software that you “manually” have to integrate with your workflow.

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#4

Sublime text is a superior text editor, but it does not compare with an IDE, in my opinion not even with x number of installed plugins, even the pro versions. Sublime text is built as a text editor, and it is not nearly flexible enough for plugin developers to create plugins matching the quality of a good quality IDE. I do not think it is fair to compare the two. If you want an IDE like development environment Sublime Text is not for you, as a replacement for VIM, Notepad++, Textmate, etc. it is absolutely amazing (and expensive).

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#5

In theory you could make a fair bit of money doing this code typing nonsense. I don’t think there’s any IDE/text editor out there that is really that expensive relative to the money you can potentially make.

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#6

I never said Sublime Text + plugins are comparable to and IDE - I said the plugins provide functionality better than equivalents in IDEs. IDEs tend to focus on specific language intellisense and debugging. Then they throw a whole bunch of other half-baked features in. Version control, other language support, test running, etc. It is those other features where most of the paid Sublime plugins live.

Personally, I switched away from a language-specific IDE to Sublime because Sublime has far superior text-editing features, and being able to open source files and jump to a specific method in a couple of keystrokes was better than slow intellisense that gave me the incomplete doc comments. For debugging I’ve been using debuggers for each language. Yes, they do require more setup, but now I have an awesome editor that can handle the 10 different languages I use, and I can script the heck out of anything I find myself repeating.

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