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BBEdit vs Sublime Text: What are the differences?

What is BBEdit? A proprietary text editor for macOS. It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

What is Sublime Text? A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform..

BBEdit and Sublime Text can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Sublime Text has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1849 company stacks & 8508 developers stacks; compared to BBEdit, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Decisions about BBEdit and Sublime Text
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 903.7K views
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
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Sublime TextSublime TextGoLandGoLand
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Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

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Andrey Ginger
Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · | 3 upvotes · 359.7K views
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Sublime TextSublime Text
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Notepad++Notepad++AtomAtom
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Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 832.5K views
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
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Sublime TextSublime Text
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I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of BBEdit
Pros of Sublime Text
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    • 722
      Lightweight
    • 654
      Plugins
    • 641
      Super fast
    • 468
      Great code editor
    • 443
      Cross platform
    • 280
      Nice UI
    • 259
      Unlimited trial
    • 154
      Cmd + d is the best command ever
    • 92
      Great community
    • 47
      Package control, modules
    • 26
      Mac OS X support
    • 23
      Easy to get started with
    • 22
      Monokai
    • 21
      Built in Python
    • 21
      Everything you need without the bloat
    • 18
      Easy
    • 14
      Speed
    • 12
      Session & edit resuming
    • 10
      Package Control
    • 9
      Well Designed
    • 8
      Multiple selections
    • 7
      Nice
    • 7
      Fast, simple and lightweight
    • 7
      ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
    • 5
      So futuristic and convenient
    • 5
      It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
    • 5
      Great
    • 5
      ALT + F3 the best command ever
    • 4
      Simple and clean design
    • 4
      Free
    • 4
      Find anything fast within entire project
    • 3
      Easy to use
    • 3
      UI + plugins
    • 3
      Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
    • 3
      Pretty
    • 3
      Hackable
    • 2
      Totally customizable
    • 2
      Color schemes and cmd+d
    • 2
      Material theme best theme forever

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    Cons of BBEdit
    Cons of Sublime Text
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      • 8
        Steep learning curve
      • 5
        Everything
      • 4
        Flexibility to move file
      • 4
        Doesn't act like a Mac app
      • 3
        Number of plugins doing the same thing
      • 2
        Don't have flutter integration
      • 2
        Forces you to buy license
      • 2
        Not open sourced

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      What is BBEdit?

      It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

      What is Sublime Text?

      Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

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      What are some alternatives to BBEdit and Sublime Text?
      TextMate
      TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
      Atom
      At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
      UltraEdit
      It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.
      Visual Studio Code
      Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
      Brackets
      With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
      See all alternatives

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