Sublime Text vs UltraEdit

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Sublime Text vs UltraEdit: What are the differences?

Introduction

This Markdown code provides a comparison between Sublime Text and UltraEdit, two popular code editors. It highlights the key differences between the two, focusing on specific aspects.

  1. User Interface: Sublime Text features a minimalistic and sleek user interface, which allows for a distraction-free coding experience. On the other hand, UltraEdit has a more traditional interface with extensive menus and toolbars, providing a comprehensive set of options and features.

  2. Customizability: Sublime Text offers extensive customization options, allowing users to personalize their coding environment. It supports various themes and allows for the creation of custom keybindings and snippets. UltraEdit, although customizable, has fewer options compared to Sublime Text, limiting the level of personalization.

  3. Performance: Sublime Text is known for its exceptional performance, providing fast loading times and smooth scrolling even with large files. UltraEdit, while capable, may experience performance issues when dealing with excessively large files or complex syntax highlighting.

  4. Package Ecosystem: Sublime Text has a vast package ecosystem, consisting of a wide range of plugins and extensions that enhance its functionality. These packages can be easily installed and contribute to the overall versatility of the editor. UltraEdit also supports some plugins and extensions, but its ecosystem is not as extensive as Sublime Text's.

  5. Cross-platform Availability: Sublime Text is compatible with multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it a suitable choice for developers using different platforms. UltraEdit, although available on different operating systems, is primarily used on Windows, limiting its cross-platform availability.

  6. Pricing Model: Sublime Text follows a freemium model, offering a fully functional trial version and requiring a license for continued usage. UltraEdit, on the other hand, is a commercial product that requires a paid license for usage, offering different pricing tiers with varying features.

In summary, Sublime Text offers a sleeker user interface, extensive customization options, exceptional performance with large files, a vast package ecosystem, cross-platform availability, and a freemium pricing model. UltraEdit, on the other hand, provides a traditional interface, limited customization options, potential performance issues, a smaller package ecosystem, primarily Windows compatibility, and a commercial pricing model.

Decisions about Sublime Text and UltraEdit
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

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 · 514.7K views

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 · 1.2M views

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 Sublime Text
Pros of UltraEdit
  • 720
    Lightweight
  • 652
    Plugins
  • 641
    Super fast
  • 468
    Great code editor
  • 442
    Cross platform
  • 280
    Nice UI
  • 260
    Unlimited trial
  • 153
    Cmd + d is the best command ever
  • 92
    Great community
  • 46
    Package control, modules
  • 26
    Mac OS X support
  • 23
    Easy to get started with
  • 22
    Monokai
  • 21
    Everything you need without the bloat
  • 21
    Built in Python
  • 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
  • 0
    Const
  • 1
    Performance
  • 1
    Resources Use

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Cons of Sublime Text
Cons of UltraEdit
  • 8
    Steep learning curve
  • 7
    Everything
  • 4
    Flexibility to move file
  • 4
    Number of plugins doing the same thing
  • 4
    Doesn't act like a Mac app
  • 3
    Not open sourced
  • 2
    Don't have flutter integration
  • 2
    Forces you to buy license
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    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.

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to Sublime Text and UltraEdit?
    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.
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    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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    With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
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