39 engineers on Hacker News describe using Sublime Text first-hand: 15 endorse it, 1 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“I'm still pretty happy with my mix of Sublime Text 3, vim, and JetBrains”
endorse · personal · d35007 · 2024-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also never warmed up to Sublime (which was fast but also felt off).”
mixed · personal · wink · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since April 2021 I'm happy with the todo lists/notes I keep in Sublime.”
endorse · personal · punkspider · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still use sublime to handle ad-hoc grepping log files... the packages ecosystem always felt a bit unpolished and anemic.”
mixed · personal · tehbeard · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Sublime all week and it feels like an engineering masterpiece.”
endorse · personal · mtm7 · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Sublime since I started and have no complaints.”
endorse · personal · icodemuch · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using: "theme": "Soda Dark 3.sublime-theme" ... and generally happy.”
endorse · personal · nodesocket · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it used to be my favorite code editor before I forced myself to learn vim”
endorse · personal · sail0rm00n · 2016-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SublimeText + Rust Enhanced has been really really awesome. In line error messages, fairly decent autocompletion”
endorse · personal · hguant · 2016-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I, on the other hand paid for ST2, and have been using ST3 since the first dev builds. Never had any problem”
endorse · personal · coldtea · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the 4/5 years that I've been using it, I've only ever once had an issue (with a dev build) that stopped me from working.”
endorse · personal · 4 yr · jbrooksuk · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for 4 years unpaid, sublime has helped me get my first home.”
endorse · personal · 4 yr · hxmc · 2015-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Sublimetext since few years. Its extremely productive.”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · ninebrows · 2015-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But now been using Plain Tasks [1] in Sublime 3. (I lost an Emacs config file and haven't looked back.)”
endorse · personal · taude · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sublime is really easy to use, and I still recommend it for designers who write a bit of code”
mixed · personal · actsasbuffoon · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The new plugin system I can't live without either, so many nice plugins.”
endorse · personal · jbrooksuk · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Those problems have also been non-existent since switching from WebStorm to Sublime Text 2.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · blakehaswell · 2013-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My impulsive purchase on the 21st December 2012 was the best thing I did that year.”
mixed · personal · LordIllidan · 2013-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and Sublime Text 2 for code editing, and VIm when tweaking stuff on the server”
endorse · production · taude · 2013-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have tried ST2 several times on OSX and never liked it.”
regret · personal · sovande · 2011-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Being a sublime power user I really like the philosophy of emacs.”
neutral · personal · az09mugen · 2025-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Until now I've been using Sublime for all my quick dev-related scratch notes.”
neutral · personal · perryraskin · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Previously, I'd just open up my site-packages folder in a dedicated Sublime window and just search the source code”
neutral · personal · bogwog · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using CTRL-c for quite some time and even remapped sublime vintage mode to use it on Windows”
neutral · personal · logical_proof · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I normally use Sublime Text to edit Markdown files but I think I might give this a try!”
neutral · personal · codethief · 2021-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's how I ran Sublime Text in WSL for a long time before I eventually switched to a different editor.”
neutral · personal · nickjj · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spark, 1Password, & Sublime Text are all "native" apps so I really don't understand what the whole fuss is about.”
neutral · personal · charrondev · 2019-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's great, but it wasn't a big enough improvement over Sublime for me to make the switch.”
neutral · personal · maliker · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also done the untitled tabs in Sublime thing.”
neutral · personal · tedmiston · 2017-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sublime Text. I find taking notes for me to be more about slowing my thought process down”
neutral · personal · molx · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to install a hack to allow me to open files in sublime from within the linux subsystem.”
neutral · personal · enjo · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For virtually all work where I don't have to use a terminal editor, I use Sublime/Textmate or one of the language specific Jetbrains IntelliJ derivatives.”
neutral · production · brightball · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had to remap some keys in sublime, which took me a few days to get used to, but that's all.”
neutral · production · fpaboim · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I then do all the functionality in my text editor (Sublime).”
neutral · personal · izyda · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Accessing them is extremely easy when you use something like Sublime Text (what we all do).”
neutral · production · donum · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't have Sublime set up on Linux so I can test there.”
neutral · personal · sandyarmstrong · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still use sublime with vintage for work. If I do reach that tipping point where straight Vim is easier/faster/nicer then I would jump ship.”
neutral · production · adambrod · 2012-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm currently a Sublime Text 2 user by day, but I'm on the cusp of switching to Emacs full-time.”
neutral · personal · AlexMax · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work, primary editors include Pico, Textmate, Emacs, vim, sublime.”
neutral · production · wglb · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?