Sublime Text vs Textadept

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Sublime Text vs Textadept: What are the differences?

# Introduction
This Markdown code provides key differences between Sublime Text and Textadept.

1. **Supported Languages**: Sublime Text supports a wider range of languages and syntax highlighting compared to Textadept, which has limited language support.
2. **Customization Options**: Sublime Text offers more customization options through plugins and themes, while Textadept has a simpler interface with fewer customization features.
3. **Memory Usage**: Sublime Text consumes more memory compared to Textadept, which is known for its lightweight design and efficient performance.
4. **Cross-Platform Compatibility**: While Sublime Text is available on major operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux, Textadept has broader cross-platform compatibility, including less common systems.
5. **Default Features**: Textadept comes with a more minimalist set of features out of the box, catering to users preferring a simpler editing environment, whereas Sublime Text includes more advanced features by default.
6. **Cost**: Sublime Text requires a one-time payment for a license to unlock all features, while Textadept is open-source and free to use without any restrictions.

In Summary, Sublime Text offers more language support, extensive customization options, and advanced features, but consumes more memory and requires a paid license. On the other hand, Textadept is lightweight, cross-platform compatible, open-source, and has a simpler interface with fewer default features.
Decisions about Sublime Text and Textadept
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 · 490.1K 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 Textadept
  • 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)
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    Totally customizable
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    Color schemes and cmd+d
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    Material theme best theme forever
  • 0
    Const
  • 1
    Fast

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Cons of Sublime Text
Cons of Textadept
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    Steep learning curve
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    Everything
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    Flexibility to move file
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    Number of plugins doing the same thing
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    Doesn't act like a Mac app
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    Not open sourced
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    Don't have flutter integration
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    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 Textadept?

    A fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible text editor for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Textadept runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and BSD. It also has a terminal version, which is ideal for work on remote machines.

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        What are some alternatives to Sublime Text and Textadept?
        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.
        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.
        WebStorm
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        Notepad++
        Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
        Brackets
        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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