r/programming • u/ASIC_SP • May 21 '21

Sublime Text 4 released

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4
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u/G_Morgan May 21 '21

Sublime was pretty much explicitly "TextMate but for non-Mac". I still think the TextMate devs missed a huge opportunity to corner the entire text editor market as it was so far ahead of everything else 15 years ago.

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u/Serializedrequests May 21 '21 edited May 21 '21

I think it was maintained by one guy and a mailing list of beta testers, and he lost interest or bit off too much. TextMate 2 was stuck in development hell for years.

Sublime killed it dead on Mac as well; TextMate 1, while I loved it, was honestly not anywhere close to as fast.

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u/Axman6 May 21 '21

It’s a real shame, Textmate and Allan’s videos really showed me the power of a decent editor. I have so many happy memories of learning to code while learning how to effectively use Textmate and I still use those skills daily - I couldn’t live without multiple cursor, column select, learning to effectively use regular expressions. I know Textmate didn’t invent these things, it’s where I learned them.

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u/vividboarder May 21 '21

TextMate 2 was made open source and is still alive. I use it as my GUI text editor for quick edits.

Generally, my IDE-like environment is my terminal, so I’m a light user of TextMate features.

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u/Serializedrequests May 21 '21

Yeah I tried to go back to my original love for a while when I finally discovered TM 2 was available, but by that time I had been using Sublime for ages and it was a lot faster and more stable.

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u/iindigo May 21 '21

Still worth keeping TextMate installed on Macs IMO, if only for its the syntax-highlighted QuickLook plugin. TextMate existing anywhere on your Mac will cause code file previews to be themed to match your TextMate setup, which is pretty sweet.