I found a post called Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025 by James Doyle while I was in the crapper this morning.
I don’t use Sublime Text myself. I used to, however, over a decade ago. It was a solid editor back in the day. It’s probably even better today.
If GNU Emacs didn’t exist, I might still use Sublime Text.
It was perfectly serviceable when I was composing Without Bloodshed, though I had handled revisions at the time with vim.
But I wasn’t willing to pay $70 for a text editor, and when I’m on a GNU/Linux system I don’t like to use software that isn’t in my distro’s package mangler unless I can compile it myself.
Instead, I went looking for a free (as in beer and speech) text editor that worked like Sublime Text. Atom was OK, but ran on Electron and was soon eclipsed by Visual Studio Code.
Fortunately, I had found my way back to Emacs. It’s not for everyone, even with starter kits like Spacemacs and Doom Emacs, but I’m making it work for me.