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1. 8finge+Qs[view] [source] 2025-01-29 12:15:15
>>james2+(OP)
I've used Sublime Text since it's initial release, and later on Sublime Merge, and i own licenses for every major version released.

However, my ST4 license recently expired, and that caused me to look back at the previous 3 years to see what my money was actually buying me, and it turns out it was mostly bugfixes. There have been, rather consistently, 2 releases per year (november and august), and the last major feature was in 2022 with syntax code folding and recent files integration, and those are the only "new features" added since ST4 was released in 2021.

Don't get me wrong, i don't mind paying for software, especially software i use every day, but ST4 more or less feels like it's on the backburner, with nothing much going on, so i let my "subscription" (ST4 licensing is more or less a subscription for 3 years) lapse.

I've instead switched to Zed (zed.dev) as my "main and fast" editor. Yes it has some rough edges, but feature wise it's very much like Sublime Text.

It doesn't support Windows (yet), which is not a problem for me, but i can see how that could be a dealbreaker for some.

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2. rollca+Iu[view] [source] 2025-01-29 12:34:36
>>8finge+Qs
I think that as software asymptotically approaches mostly-bugfix releases, it's a good sign that it's "done", and therefore just stable, reliable, and "boring".

Sometimes boring is good, especially for your core toolkit. It can free up your energy to spend it on more interesting things, like actual coding.

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