I finally bought myself a Sublime Text 3 license for Christmas.

How does it feel

++ for donating towards Devs' effort.

I just might do the same

Did you also pay for Winrar?

/s

@Lasagna totally agree

Sublime is great, congrats!

Regarding using it for free and the WinRar comparison, well, you could pirate everything if it's morally acceptable to you. Sublime's license even allows you to "evaluate" it for as long as you want. But I myself bought it because I just had to support the developer of such excellent software.

@pavel-durov Thanks for VK

@heeMan no problem :)

@Lasagna I have used both Atom and Sublime Text for over a year each. Here are a few of the reasons why I prefer Sublime:

- Atom feels incomplete out of the box to me. Things like the mini map, linter, and language specific syntax highlighting, are available as plugins but those sometimes break.

- For some reason Atom would ocasionally place random invisible characters into my code which caused it to fail running/compiling.

- Atom has issues opening any file larger than 1 MB while sublime can easily (and suprisingly smoothly) handle files > 1 GB, which comes in handy for viewing logs or large JSON outputs.

- Sublime tends to be a little bit more responsive in general.

Brackets *hides in corner*

@itsnameless idk :P
I don't think vim is the best for web stuff

@CodeNoir
I think Winrar did the same evaluation time tactic as Sublime. Winrar just became a meme for it. I have heard though that many people paid for Winrar even after years of not using it anymore. It was like tribute for all the years they had been using the "free trial".

In fact I support paying the developers / content creators. In the last 10 years I have bought like 400 CDs, paid for Spotify, Netflix and paid for legitimate software. I just thought Sublime and Winrar was a fun comparison (and that's the reason I added the sarcasm flag /s).

Hmm...maybe I should donate some money to open-source projects I have been using (like Paint.NET) over the years.

@DuckyMcDuckFace
Oh yeah, I had once a 30k lines of json in a file. It was a pain to work with it in Atom. I can surely agree on that!

And i.e. the minimap plugin crashed few times for me aswell.

I stopped using Atom after a few months, and now I'm using WebStorm for web development.

When a developer makes a piece of software that is this awesome, it feels natural to give something back to them. I strongly support this move

Regarding the price, VS Code and Atom are developed by companies that could afford to have teams working on a free product. It seems natural to me that the Sublime developer would need money to pay his bills given Sublime is his main product (IIRC).