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Sublime Text vs Light Table: What are the differences?

Developers describe Sublime Text as "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.. On the other hand, Light Table is detailed as "It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation". It is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It gives real time feedback on the changes you make to your code, and shows how data values flow through your entire program. As such, it doesn't just provide the answers, but instead helps you understand why the answers are what they are.

Sublime Text and Light Table can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by Sublime Text are:

Goto Anything
Multiple Selections
Command Palette

On the other hand, Light Table provides the following key features:

Free and open source
Cross-platform
Lightweight

Decisions about Light Table and Sublime Text

Kamaleshwar BN

Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

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over

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.

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 438.6K views

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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 Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface.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

Simon Ibssa

Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 1.1M views

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Visual Studio Code

over

Sublime Text

My Stack

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 Light Table

Pros of Sublime Text

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718
Lightweight
652
Plugins
639
Super fast
467
Great code editor
441
Cross platform
277
Nice UI
258
Unlimited trial
154
Cmd + d is the best command ever
92
Great community
45
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
ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
7
Nice
7
Fast, simple and lightweight
5
It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
5
So futuristic and convenient
5
ALT + F3 the best command ever
5
Great
4
Find anything fast within entire project
4
Easy to use
4
Free
4
Simple and clean design
3
Hackable
3
Pretty
3
UI + plugins
3
Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
2
Totally customizable
2
Color schemes and cmd+d
2
Material theme best theme forever
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Cons of Light Table

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

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What is Light Table?

It is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It gives real time feedback on the changes you make to your code, and shows how data values flow through your entire program. As such, it doesn't just provide the answers, but instead helps you understand why the answers are what they are.

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 Light Table and Sublime Text?

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.

Brackets

With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

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.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

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