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Really? If you're a programmer you probably spend 6-16 hours a day in your text editor. An artist pays $120+ a year for Photoshop. They don't generally settle for gIMP. The 2 are barely comparable. Similarly construction workers don't use tools from the 99¢ store.

If you value your time you shouldn't look at a few hundred dollars as the difference between using some software and not. That software is a force multiplier.

I'm not saying sublime text is better than atom. I'm only saying that price should not be the reason to choose something you use several hours a day.

You're kind of missing the essential part of alternatives here, and that argument also is a slippery slope. With the same logic, it might make sense to spend thousands of dollars on something you use for your job the majority of your day. Besides that though, yes, I agree it would make sense to spend $70 on a text editor that you use every day for many hours a day, but only if it is the single best option on the market. If someone believes that Atom is equally good, then no, it is not worth it to spend $70 on sublime text.

True. I'd honestly forgotten that I paid for Sublime Text all that time ago.

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