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The only proprietary software that I use as a matter of choice is Microsoft products and VMWare products, For something as trivial as a text editor, I wouldn't dare use something closed source, proprietary like this.

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I don't think it's quite fair to classify Sublime as a text editor. Your comment trivializes the quality of the editing experience, the rich plugin ecosystem, the speed of the editor compared to common competitors, etc.

You are of course entitled to your preferences, but I'm not sure why you wouldn't "dare" use this?

Emacs and vim are classified as text editors, and Sublime is a small fraction of what Emacs and vim are.

To be fair, the small fraction of features that Sublime shares with Emacs and vim are hardly insufficient for a good editor.

Because there is code in there that neither myself or my peers have seen.

  I don't think it's quite fair to classify
  Sublime as a text editor.

While I may not agree with the totality of what @_RPM states, there is no doubt that Sublime is "a text editor" when the official site states thusly[0]:

  Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor...

0 - http://www.sublimetext.com/

"Trivial as a text editor"

I wonder if you spend 8 hours a day staring at a text editor... I recommend you make your own if it's so trivial

Text editors are one of the few very-well specified systems. The requirements are very well known and there is plenty of information available on design and implementation. Yes, text editors are very easy to implement.

The problems come when people think it's so easy they can just jump in without doing any reading.

Hey, I'm currently in the stage where I do research to build a text editor. Would you mind linking some of this information about the design and implementation you're talking about? More interested in the UX/higher level things that the low-level code for optimizing and such.

Thanks!

I can't tell if you are sincere or you are trying to be passive aggressive. We've been talking about raw performance and you ask about trimmings. Also, I'm not going to do your googling for you.

I was sincere and it's an honest question I would like to have help with.

You said there is plenty of information about this available widely, I can't find said information so some guidance would be helpful.

Microsoft's VS Code is open source and a direct competitor to this. Here's the source if you want to build it:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

If only it was a raw win32 C++ app...

Yep, the new meta frameworks add dev friendliness but does nothing to up the user experience in relation to speed and consistency.

> but does nothing to up the user experience in relation to speed and consistency

But can't dev friendliness mean less time needed to fix bugs or add features?

And since it's Electron, isn't it more easily consistent across all available platforms?

It's not about dev friendliness in general, but "friendliness" for js/html/css web dev who refuses to learn right tools. So it's about education (a lack of).

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