Sublime Text reviewed by a Visual Studio and PHP Storm user.
December 15, 2018
Sublime Text reviewed by a Visual Studio and PHP Storm user.
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sublime Text
At our company various members of our development team use Sublime Text for various reasons. Some, like myself, use it as their scratch pad of choice, as well as to open single files as opposed to entire directories or projects. Others use it as their principle development environment for PHP, JS, HTML/CSS.
- Sublime is my go to editor for opening random files while I am working in another editing environment. Sublime very quickly handles large JSON, XML, and other data files without a large memory strain.
- Sublime has easy to use/install plugins provided by a community of users that help increase coding efficiency.
- Sublime provides an easy interface for customizing the theme of the editor to tailor to your specific aesthetics.
- The biggest area of improvement would be a more comprehensive toolset for working within a project. I use other editors when working on a full project for their ease of use navigating around the code base and stepping through in a debugger.
- As a free editor, Sublime Text has definitely provided a positive ROI for our development team. It is very good at what it does. For areas where it lags behind some competitors, it still has the benefit of being free. For a quick development task, it is my go-to editor.
Sublime Text does not provide as comprehensive of a development environment as PhpStorm or Visual Studio IDE. On the other hand, it does not take up nearly as much in system resources, so it is very convenient to use when opening many files or directories for lighter editing. I find that I use it more than Visual Studio Code, as VS Code did not add the benefits I wanted from a full IDE and was not as convenient for lighter use.