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Brackets vs Sublime Text: What are the differences?
Brackets: A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code; 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..
Brackets and Sublime Text can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by Brackets are:
- Code Hints from a PSD
- Inline Editors
- Live Preview
On the other hand, Sublime Text provides the following key features:
- Goto Anything
- Multiple Selections
- Command Palette
"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 46 developers like Brackets, while over 696 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Sublime Text.
Brackets is an open source tool with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.41K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Brackets's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Sublime Text has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1399 company stacks & 1309 developers stacks; compared to Brackets, which is listed in 36 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.
Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.
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 Brackets
- Beautiful UI51
- Lightweight40
- Extremely customizable25
- Free plugins20
- Live Preview13
- Free themes13
- Clean8
- Easy7
- Integration with photoshop6
- Perfect for web development4
- Fast4
- Simple4
- Code suggestions2
- Awesome UI2
- Clean UI2
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 Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1
Cons of Sublime Text
- Steep learning curve7
- Flexibility to move file4
- Everything4
- Number of plugins doing the same thing3
- Doesn't act like a Mac app3
- Don't have flutter integration2
- Forces you to buy license1
- Not open sourced1
