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Sublime Text 3.0 — The long awaited version 3 of the popular code editor

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Sublime Text 3.0 brings a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Some of the other highlights are big syntax highlighting improvements, touch input support on Windows, Touch Bar support on macOS, and apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux.

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Daveyon Mayne
It's it time to switch from atom?
Ronald Langeveld
@mirmayne @ryan_roberts1 Atom is a bit too bloated in my opinion, it's got awesome features, but it's got too much unnecessary plugins & stuff that comes with by default . When it comes to free options, I was recently introduced to Visual Studio Code. Despite being very anti-Microsoft, VSC performs very well on my Macbook and is very lightweight compared to Atom & most other free editors. But still, nothing beats Sublime Text in terms of performance. I'm a huge fan!
caleb
@mirmayne idk do you need to open files longer than 20 lines?
Daveyon Mayne
@superspookyuser More than 20 lines of code? 🤔
caleb
@mirmayne haha only a little bit sarcastic, For me as the files get bigger, Atom gets more unresponsive. Sublime opens huge files without stuttering.
Ryan Roberts
@cacarr I have actually switched to VSCode this week and love it.
Maxim Zubarev
I feel like this happens way too late. Atom has taken advantage from the "downtime" that Sublime had and maybe even exist just because of this. I myself can't see myself switching back from Atom because I can't trust the people behind Sublime to update it frequently, which seems a major quality characteristic nowadays. However, I don't want to badmouth this eventual release, so I will keep an active eye again on Sublime to see how the ecosystem evolves from now on. Kudos!
Michel
@mxmzb I feel like developers have a different opinion on that. Over on Hacker News people seem to like SB much more than Atom.
Maxim Zubarev
@mictuc I was talking explicitly about "me". Besides, I am not quite sure how much HN really is representing the group of people called "developers". At least it doesn't seem to represent me, and I consider myself as a developer, too. That's just too generalizing (and generalizing based on pretty much nothing) imho...
Reorx Xiao

Among its siblings like Atom, VS Code, sublime is the fastest and most fluent. But because of the slow update cycle and being a paid software, the community is smaller, therefore extensions are less, but enough to cover everyday usage and most popular languages.

Pros:

slick

Cons:

community is not very active

Ghost Kitty
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Hunter
That's a surprise: after years in development its finally here. Sublime Text 3.0. The sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Congrats to the devs who made it happen. As for the new 3.0 features: "Certainly there are big features that 3.0 has: Goto Definition, a new syntax highlighting engine, a new UI, and an expanded API. However the difference is frequently felt in the hundreds of improvements that don't warrant being featured on their own: spell checking works better, automatic indentation does the right thing more often, word wrapping handles source code better, high DPI screens are properly supported, and Goto Anything is smarter. There's too much to list, but combined the difference is night and day."
Dre Durr💡
Will this update be the end of Atom... Glad to see more updates Dope 🚬🚬
Stefan Wirth
@dredurr haha you never fail to deliver on that dope 😜
Emily Carter
It is time to switch from sublime2)
Kristian Gerardsson
Wow! I thought the project was dead, and I was about to switch to VS Code. Now I can stay with ST :D I just hope the next release won't take a whole year.
Lorenzo Bruno
@frexuz switch anyway, VS Code is easily the best editor out there at the moment. Then you know, it's just my opinion, coding is like fashion, everyone has his own style! ;)
cacarr
@frexuz @lorenzobruno Every now and then Microsoft makes something great. Such was the case with Visual Studio Code.
Daniel

Necessary packages:

• Maybs Quit

• Sidebar Enhancements

• Trailing Spaces

• Sublime Linter

• A dark theme, like Soda Dark

• imo: Vintage (VIM keybindings) with vintage_start_in_command_mode and vintage_use_clipboard set to true

Pros:

A lot faster than Atom

Cons:

Vintage mode clipboard interaction

Simon Bromberg
Literally just deleted Sublime Text 2 yesterday because I have been using Atom exclusively for a while. Was wondering when 3 would be released… But based on what I'm seeing here I'm not going to bother.
Franco Correa

Now, Atom and VS Code have envolved a lot

Pros:

Native and faster UI interface

Cons:

Not many as integrations as competitors

Leif Abraham
I love Sublime so much
seko

I was using the beta version for more than 2 years and it was really good. I wouldn't have known that it was a beta version if they didn't say so.

Updates are pretty frequent. Major releases take time but the developers push minor updates frequently but they lack in communication. Other than that, ST3 is one of the best text/code editors you can find out there.

Pros:

Fast (tried with 10000+ LOC), lightweight, have packages for everything I need, customization

Cons:

If developers would be willing to interact more with the community, that would be great.

Gal Niv

Been using Sublime 2 for years. Finally time to upgrade!

Pros:

The original. Faster, by far, than all the Electron-based editors.

Cons:

Perhaps not as many constantly-updated integrations.

Robin Dowling

I love Sublime for its simplicity and versatility. This is my go to editor for almost anything coding related. I venture out to Xcode and Android Studio when I have to, otherwise it's Sublime all day.

Love the new logo too!

Pros:

Simple, nice colors, versatile, multi-cursor editing and much much more!

Cons:

Settings are a little clunky since they are 100% code based. But this is a strength at the same time, because they are code based.

Sooraj Chandran
Have been waiting for some time for this.
Jevgeni
Love that the new app titlebar blends in with the theme.
Naseem Raad

Used this for NASM32 Assembly, Web Development, and even Java.

Pros:

It is very clean and also has tons of settings.

Cons:

Package Installer is a little weird to install when you are new to the program.

Cody
I am excited for this release as I still use Sublime for my email building workflows but it feels a little too late to save the slow steady decline of Sublime. I use VS Code and Jetbrains products for all my day to day work now.
Geoffrey Bourne
Yeah - finally - and what a change log!