
The best and brightest features come from packages. They are few and far between and I don't think they drastically improve your experience. Pay if you want to support the dev, not for the dev channel updates. Sublime is very much a labor of love and development just happens when it happens. But as a long time license holder I don't really believe that a few more people paying for licenses is going to have a drastic effect on the development process. I find it important to pay for things I use for a long time and that was my moral justification. Nobody wants to really lose all these so new offerings have an extremely uphill battle and the sublime community is going to stay strong for a long time.Įven as a license owner I have mixed opinions on the matter. Sublime's biggest and best feature has always been the existing community and the extra packages available. but it's worth objectively noting that there are areas where sublime is falling behind a little. Key features like ligature fonts, that seem on the rise on other offerings seem to be more or less off the table due to constraints of the existing codebase. There's definitely access dev builds that add a little, but development is still rather slow and the roadmap is mostly unknown. Lots of downvoting for anyone with even an inkling of a negative opinion. Mostly enthusiasts who either love the software a lot or those who really need to justify their license purchases.


I think you'll hardly get an objective opinion in here.
