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An editor built for developers and developers at heart.
December 14, 2018

An editor built for developers and developers at heart.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sublime Text

In our organization Sublime Text is the officially recommended developer IDE. All developers across our 200+ person team use Sublime Text in one way or another. We use it to ensure a homogeneous developer environment across the organization. Sublime Text was selected to address the needs of our developers as individuals and our IT teams as a support staff. Sublime Text gives our developers a customizable IDE, one that supports team plugins and a variety of languages. It also ensures that IT only needs to support one developer tool regardless of language or situation.
  • Speed. Sublime Text is quick to launch and remains so even when working on 10K line files.
  • Versatility. Sublime Text just works for any programming language you could throw at it.
  • Customizability. There are enough settings and options in Sublime Text to satisfy even the most picky of developers.
  • The wealth of plugins available. There are hundreds of plugins available freely from community resources.
  • The open plugin api. Any individual or team can develop a plugin to fit whatever scenario they could conceive of.
  • Cost. Sublime Text is one of the most cost effective tools regardless of team size, this helps to keep costs per developer low.
  • Sublime Text is a closed source tool. This is unfortunate because it prevents teams from true 100% customization.
  • Lack of support right after install. We often lose a day or two of developer productivity while they get their system just how they want it.
  • Support of full IDE features. Sublime Text is first and foremost a scripting editor, this means it will never truly have support for thing like debuggers as we expect in IDE's.
  • Sublime Text has reduced our developer operating costs simply because of its low licensing cost.
  • Sublime Text has reduced our IT operating costs by minimizing the number of tools that require support across the organization.
  • Atom
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • Notepad++
Sublime Text has been consistently faster and better supported than any of the other tools listed. I have yet to come across a tool that handles so many different languages without flinching. Sublime Text has also provided a level of customization that our developers cant seem to live without.
Sublime Text is well suited for environments where developers have to work with multiple languages, prototype quickly, and do lots of scripting. This is because Sublime Text is able to switch files and languages with speed unprecedented compared to classic IDE's.

Sublime Text is ill-suited for environments where developers already have tools they love and where developers have to work with primarily compiled languages. It's often hard to convince developers to make the switch to a new tool when the ones they currently have already work. Sublime Text also does poorly when working with compiled languages, the support just isn't mature enough yet.