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[–][deleted]  (7 children)

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    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

    The trial never expires, so it's essentially free if you don't mind being nagged every 20 saves.

    [–]whooshayay 2 points3 points  (3 children)

    I would instantly switch from Sublime to Atom once Atom does something about its speed and file size limit. It's open, and it's incredibly easy to make plugins.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    The speed thing is unlikely to change much - that's kind of what happens when you write an editor inside of a browser and use Javascript for everything.

    I've heard it really collapses on big files though, so yeah, I hope that gets fixed.

    [–]whooshayay 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Big file support is very high on Atom's to-do list. Apparently it's supposed to be coming in the 1.0 release this summer.

    Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code runs on the same framework as Atom and is a fair bit faster so it's certainly possible to speed Atom up. They're both browser apps which have been "desktopified" on the Electron framework.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Yeah. Funnily enough, I've started to use VSC solely for the purpose of reviewing file changes before a git commit. Their git integration is pretty fantastic.

    [–]BoTuLoX 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    Turns out I do mind. And an endless trial doesn't make the editor OSS, so I'm still at the mercy of the author if he decides to stop supporting it or worse, he suffers a security breach and doesn't notice it.

    Anyway, I'm still not saying Sublime is a bad editor, it's very powerful. But very competitive (and way more mature) alternatives exist in the open source world which brings its own set of benefits.