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Sublime Text

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What is Sublime Text?

Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.

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Sublime Text is a versatile text editor that is widely used by various organizations for different purposes. Users highly recommend it for …
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My Sublime Text Review

7 out of 10
April 24, 2022
Sublime Text is one of the largest Text Editors with IDE and is one of the underrated Text Editors as a developer I have used so many …
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Simply Sublime

10 out of 10
July 05, 2021
Incentivized
Several teams in my department use Sublime Text as a code editor in addition to using Visual Studio or Visual Code. Sublime Text has the …
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$80.00

Cloud

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Sublime Text are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Sublime Text is a versatile text editor that is widely used by various organizations for different purposes. Users highly recommend it for coding needs, such as PHP, web development, Python, and Lua. It helps visualize code components, identify errors, and maintain a clean code base. With its powerful features, Sublime Text is utilized by the Research and Development department to analyze large amounts of texts, search for similarities or irregularities, and update big text files efficiently. In addition to software development, users rely on Sublime Text for searching the filesystem, finding specific information, and performing batch operations on files. Its small size, lightness, large community of developers, and useful plugins make it a preferred choice for smaller websites with custom code. Furthermore, Sublime Text is commonly used in IT departments for text manipulation, web development, systems administration, and help desk operations. Marketing roles also find it beneficial to modify HTML files without the need to understand complex IDEs. The software allows quick changes and efficient meeting of demands in writing code for websites. Sublime Text proves to be invaluable in custom development shop workflows due to its advanced features that other applications like Notepad cannot deliver. It excels at writing queries, organizing thoughts, and viewing/editing files without corrupting their structure. With support for different languages/technologies and streamlined navigation, Sublime Text is highly regarded as one of the best text editors for software development. It solves the business problem of having to pay for an IDE by providing a single IDE for coding across multiple languages. Organizations officially recommend Sublime Text as their developer IDE to ensure a consistent developer environment supporting a variety of languages. The free version offers almost all the features available in the paid version. Users appreciate its speed, reliability, and extensive plugin market that enhances functionality without compromising performance. While some users may use other code editors alongside Sublime Text, they value its lightweight nature and flexibility for different use cases. Students in middle school technology classes also utilize Sublime Text for writing code in web design and Python. Engineers often rely on additional plugins to perform quick text manipulation tasks. Sublime Text proves to be useful for taking notes, parsing text files, and writing short scripts in various languages. Users find its interface clear and legible, making it one of the top choices among text editors. Developers frequently choose Sublime Text over other publicly available text editor tools, particularly for specific types of development work involving languages like Python, SQL, R, and data science-related tasks. Its ease of installation, setup, and extensibility through plugins makes Sublime Text a valuable tool for developers. One of the standout features is its multiline editing capability, which is particularly appreciated for tasks like reformatting and working with the syntax of a language. Whether it's writing, editing, or fixing HTML and CSS code, coding on GitHub repositories, or simply using it as a notepad for making notes, Sublime Text proves to be versatile and reliable. Its flexibility and customization options make it a top choice among users who rely on it as their primary text editor for viewing source files and navigating code.

Overall, Sublime Text has earned its reputation as one of the best text editors for software development. It supports a wide range of languages and technologies, streamlines navigation, reduces time spent on repetitive tasks, and allows users to focus on the parts that require thought. With its small size, extensive plugin market, and powerful features that enhance productivity and efficiency without compromising performance, Sublime Text continues to be an indispensable tool for professionals in various fields such as software development, data analysis, web design, and more.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I used to code on Adobe Dreamweaver before. Dreamweaver software was very heavy for my code, but Sublime Text is a much lighter software compared to Dreamweaver, and I can easily use Sublime Text anywhere because its software takes up very little space.
Leonardo Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Notepad++
  • Atom
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Sublime Text allows for all sorts of customization to help users change almost everything in the editor: Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions, and many more. Essentially, just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files. This system gives the user flexibility as settings can be specified on a per-file type and per-project basis.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easier to use, runs very solid (especially on Mac OS). Syntax coloring is the best. Possibilities to add plugins and custom things is huge. Connection with Github works great (never tested this with the other tools though).

Also, our company has chosen this tool so at my current job I haven't tried any others.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text is free and offers a cleaner coding interface. Even if I forgot to save updates to a file, the next time I open it, it's still present. Sublime Text boots faster than the other text editors and is also easy to deploy. Memory consumption of Sublime Text is lesser compared to other editors.
ankit patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to Visual Studio IDE. We also chose sublime because it has much better support for the majority of languages(especially Python) and I primarily work with python.
Al Mubassir Muin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Compared to any other text editor I've used, Sublime Text has the best user interface. On Macs, Windows, and Linux, Sublime Text makes editing easier. When I couldn't use Notepad++ on a Windows machine, I used Sublime Text instead. My colleagues started using Sublime Text, so I decided to switch from Notepad++.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Even if Vim is a must use for every programmer, [especially] if you work with server files via ssh or similar, for daily use its learning curve is big and difficult. Instead, sublime requires almost no knowledge to start using it and, in a local instance, their performance is similar.
Mostafa Dakam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Google Keep for taking notes on the go and sharing with my colleagues, sharing tasks for example but for my professional coding I use sublime text, because it has all the features I need to do my work, I use google note on mobile devices but I use sublime on my desktop or laptop.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've used both Notepad++ and Atom; both are great but nothing really beats the Sublime Text UI; super intuitive and friendly and does everything you need without overwhelming you with stuff you don't. Other options are free, but for our organization, it was well worth the small license cost for the persistent use of a great product.
July 05, 2021

Simply Sublime

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text has a bit more flexibility and doesn't take up as much space or memory as some of the larger IDEs. Notepad++ is customizable too, but Sublime Text is better suited for code editing in my experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Visual Studio Code is nice from a development standpoint in that it offers many of the features of Sublime Text with the addition of an integrated terminal. Brackets likewise offers some of the benefits of Sublime Text with some added HTML specific tools. Both of these products, however, struggle or are unable to deal with large files, and are more specialized to specific tasks. Vim is really unparalleled by anything in existence as far as text editing; if you know it, Vim can feel like thinking. The problem with Vim, however, is that it is almost magical in its functionality. It probably has the steepest learning curve of any text processor in existence. For this reason, Sublime Text brings sophisticated editing to users with a much lower bar to entry.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Visual Studio Code was honestly a tough competitor to Sublime for multi-language projects, and ultimately edged it out for some of the teams I worked with. It's library functionality was far superior, it is 100% open source vs ads, and it has a similar speed. PyCharm and WebStorm were better as dedicated IDEs for python and javascript respectively, although Sublime worked better for multi-language projects.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Before using Visual Studio Code, we were using Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver worked well back then, but we were amazed at how much faster and more intuitive Sublime Text was. That's the time that we got into SASS, which made things go so much faster and more efficiently. Also Sublime Text just feels so much more streamlined than Dreamweaver. Faster, easier, more intuitive to use. However, about eight months ago, we moved over to Visual Studio Code. I find Visual Studio Code to be pretty similar to Sublime Text in many ways, but the main reason why we moved to Visual Studio Code was that it enabled us to stop needing to use another program for compiling, which just makes life that much easier.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While Microsoft Visual Studio Code has a lot more to offer, it can sometimes be a little too much and get too complicated. I like to keep things simple in text editors which makes Sublime Text my preferred editor. There are a lot of packages that can be installed for Sublime Text as well which is another advantage to it since it is open source.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to support many of the development needs but it still isn't a native solution.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublime Text beat out everything else we tried.

Visual Studio Code which recently became more popular is not as fast and serves a different market than Sublime's general text editing.

Atom always felt sluggish and slow.

Vim is complicated and tends to have a very opinionated user base that appreciates it, and wouldn't work for our marketing team because of its learning curve.

Jetbrain's IDE products are great, but are sometimes overkill and are not going to be as snappy as Sublime.
Yaniv Vararu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Notepad++
The main reason I moved from using Notepad++ to use Sublime Text was that I moved from Windows OS to Mac OS....
Notepad++ is not supported on Windows based systems, so I had no choice.
But my guess is that over the years, I would have probably moved to Sublime Text anyway, since it became a "hot trend" among co-workers, at least in the computer software industry.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sublimes text is comparable with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and NotePad++. However, VS code is far better than [Sublime Text] in terms of the plugins and extensions available in the market. [...] Sublime consumes [...] less memory, compared to the VS code, [which provides] as many as [the] same features [that] are available in the CS code, like [...] code completion. Automatic code indentation makes it better than notepad++.
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