“I want to code; I’m not looking to make lifestyle choices.” – Unsung

Robin Sloan:

I nonetheless use Sublime Text for all of my programming and all of my newsletter-ing. […] The app is easy and superfast; I’ve it arrange precisely the best way I prefer it […], and it’s tough for me to think about ever switching to anything.

Here is a bit of software program as sturdy and obedient as a cast-iron pan.

Sloan hyperlinks to a piece by David Bushnell about Sublime Text, who writes:

I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I do know is that I can place my textual content cursor and skim the encircling code and not using a bombardment of popovers, pop-unders, pop-left-and-rights, pop-inlines, pop-in-and-out-too-fast-to-sees. […]

The good dev stack is a group of software program that every does one job and doesn’t endure principal character syndrome. I wish to code, I’m not trying to make way of life selections. I don’t need a bloated the whole lot app. Don’t get me began on the “unified toolchain” plague! Show me the newest VC-backed construct device and I’ll present you ten traces of PHP that does a greater job.

If you’re fed up of absolutely the state of issues, Sublime Text nonetheless works.

This is all very a lot consistent with the put up about TextEdit from some time again.

I do care who develops good software program since, on the very least, I wish to give them credit score. This is the best I could find, when you too are curious. It was prompted by somebody asking:

I’ve been a Sublime Text consumer for over a decade, and now a Sublime Merge consumer, too. But it happens to me that I do know nearly nothing concerning the crew/​firm behind it.

I’m wondering if this can be a good instance of the (quiet) posture of the corporate matching the (utilitarian) persona of the software program it’s making.