Nuclide vs Sublime Text: What are the differences?

What is Nuclide? An open IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Atom (by Facebook). A unified developer experience for web and mobile development, built as a suite of packages on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.

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..

Nuclide can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment" category, while Sublime Text is grouped under "Text Editor".

Some of the features offered by Nuclide are:

• Remote development. At Facebook, our web and back-end engineers work on remote development servers in our data centers. Nuclide provides a pair of packages that allow connections over SSH to a lightweight node daemon on the server, making possible remote file editing and syntax/type validation. Of course, this also works for VMs, enabling local development on HHVM, for example.
• Hack language support. The Hack codebase is one of the largest at Facebook. First-class Hack support — including syntax highlighting, type-checking, autocomplete, and click-to-symbol features — has been an important requirement on Nuclide from the start. We're also excited that the growing Hack community outside the company will be able to enjoy dedicated IDE support.
• Flow support. For both local and remote JavaScript development, Flow has brought type integrity and the ability to quickly refactor our React components and apps. As it does for Hack, Nuclide supports Flow-specific decorations and editor features in @flow-annotated files.

On the other hand, Sublime Text provides the following key features:

• Goto Anything
• Multiple Selections
• Command Palette

"Remote development with SSH" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Nuclide, while over 696 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Sublime Text.

Nuclide is an open source tool with 8K GitHub stars and 747 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nuclide's open source repository on GitHub.

Lyft, Starbucks, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Sublime Text, whereas Nuclide is used by Movielala, Instagram, and Facebook. Sublime Text has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1399 company stacks & 1308 developers stacks; compared to Nuclide, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.