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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.
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.
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 Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface.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
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!
Pros of BBEdit
Pros of Sublime Text
- Lightweight722
- Plugins654
- Super fast641
- Great code editor468
- Cross platform443
- Nice UI280
- Unlimited trial259
- Cmd + d is the best command ever154
- Great community92
- Package control, modules47
- Mac OS X support26
- Easy to get started with23
- Monokai22
- Built in Python21
- Everything you need without the bloat21
- Easy18
- Speed14
- Session & edit resuming12
- Package Control10
- Well Designed9
- Multiple selections8
- Nice7
- Fast, simple and lightweight7
- ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever7
- So futuristic and convenient5
- It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule5
- Great5
- ALT + F3 the best command ever5
- Simple and clean design4
- Free4
- Find anything fast within entire project4
- Easy to use3
- UI + plugins3
- Sublime Merge (Git Integration)3
- Pretty3
- Hackable3
- Totally customizable2
- Color schemes and cmd+d2
- Material theme best theme forever2
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Cons of BBEdit
Cons of Sublime Text
- Steep learning curve8
- Everything5
- Flexibility to move file4
- Doesn't act like a Mac app4
- Number of plugins doing the same thing3
- Don't have flutter integration2
- Forces you to buy license2
- Not open sourced2