I still like Sublime Text in 2025

1. zed

   1 314 91,239 10.0 Rust

   Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

   

   Nobody mentionned Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) which is the community maintained Atom since its sunsetting (Dec 2022). Atom was created by Nathan Sobo, who is now working on Zed (https://zed.dev/).

2. AppSignal

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   AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

   

3. vscodium

   2 582 33,469 9.1 Shell

   binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

   

   I've been running vscodium for a couple of years now, and they rip out the MS specific stuff so no ChatGPT and so forth. I haven't noticed any slowdowns.

   Maybe give it a try? https://vscodium.com/

4. sublime_text

   3 307 879 0.0

   Issue tracker for Sublime Text

   

   Maybe you can priorize https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/1649. As a heavy LSP user, I find it very inconvenient not being able to copy text out of popups.

5. bin

   4 5 143 4.4 Shell

   Useful scripts and configs for Linux users (by dmi3)

   

6. todo

   5 1 15 2.8

   A new format for plaintext to-do lists (by mlagerberg)

   

   I've used it for 15 years and ST is still the first thing I install on a new PC.

   All thoughts, meeting notes, journals, blog post drafts... everything is jotted down in ST first. I even went as far as writing my own to-do list syntax highlighter[1] which is the main reason ST is always open, at home and at work, even though I mostly use VSCode and IntelliJ for coding nowadays.

   [1]: https://github.com/mlagerberg/todo

7. PlainTasks

   6 5 3,287 2.8 Python

   An opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text editor (version 2 and 3)

   

   Using this with a watered down GTD setup has really brought a lot of peace in both my personal and professional life.

   [0] https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks

8. pylance-release

   7 53 2,124 8.0 Python

   Documentation and issues for Pylance

   

   I was a longtime user of Sublime Text and switched to VSCode because of Remote Development and Pylance. Everything else is pretty much fine and Sublime has always had better performance, though these days having support for AI integration (a la Copilot) is also necessary for me.

   I tried Zed recently because it has remote support and AI integration, but the Python integration is limited to Pyright so I gave up temporarily (I guess I can recreate Pylance using this doc: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/USING...).

9. SaaSHub

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10. sublime-open-in-cursor

    8 1 1 5.1 Python

    Open the current file in Cursor

    

    I just added a "Open In Cursor" plugin:

    https://github.com/spencerchristensen/sublime-open-in-cursor

    It isn't on Package Control as I just submitted the PR.

    I made this as I love Sublime Text as a text editor and do not want to pollute it with AI garbage. However, there are times where I want to quickly open the same file in Cursor to hash out some their agents.

11. Terminus

    9 19 1,463 3.5 Python

    Bring a real terminal to Sublime Text (by randy3k)

    

    > sane built-ins such as a terminal

    After I initially switched from VSCode back to Sublime Text, I used Terminus [1], which I used to swear by. But then I made an effort to strip back the amount of plugins I used, and just bound a hotkey to focus my default terminal (Konsole on KDE), and I don't really miss the integrated terminal anymore.

    [1] https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Terminus

12. Electron

    10 252 123,382 9.9 C++

    :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

    

    I went back to Sublime Text after trying VS Code for a few months.

    VS Code is very nice, when it works. My main problems had to do with the extension ecosystem. It felt very chaotic: it was hard to figure out which ones to install to get the functionality I wanted. Updates to Python extensions sometimes caused instability, crashing the editor. And I found it difficult to set extension preferences: the UI tries to be slick but in practice it ends up being clunky and awkward. On top of that, there was an annoying bug on Linux, related to Electron, that prevented the Save dialog box from appearing properly, which... kind of sucks. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/32857

    Sublime is the perfect programmer's editor for dynamic languages like Python, and for general text editing. It's lightning fast. LSP is just enough to be helpful without getting in the way. Workspaces work the way I would expect. I prefer editing JSON files for preferences over navigating a complex GUI.

    Best money I've ever spent on a license, and I'll happily renew just for maintenance updates, to be honest.

13. sublime-log-syntax

    11 1 1 3.0

    Sublime Text syntax for .log files

    

    Absolutely. I actually just made my own syntax for highlighting the log files in Laravel (Monolog): https://github.com/james2doyle/sublime-log-syntax

14. yasfw

    12 1 55 - Rust

    Yet Another SSHFS for Windows

    

    IMO remote mounts is a feature of the OS.

    For Windows, just use yasfw with dokany

    https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw

    https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

    Or mount from inside WSL.

    For Linux and macOS, you can mount ssh directly.

15. dokany

    13 15 5,947 6.7 C

    User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper

    

    IMO remote mounts is a feature of the OS.

    For Windows, just use yasfw with dokany

    https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw

    https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

    Or mount from inside WSL.

    For Linux and macOS, you can mount ssh directly.

16. sublime_merge

    14 37 290 0.0

    Issue tracker for Sublime Merge

    

    G'day, I head up the Sublime Merge team.

    Firstly, thanks for using it and supporting us!

    If you haven't already, it would help immensely to get a bug report here: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues/new/choose

    I'll definitely look into this further and get it sorted

17. pulsar

    15 98 4,162 9.3 JavaScript

    A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor (by pulsar-edit)

    

    Nobody mentionned Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) which is the community maintained Atom since its sunsetting (Dec 2022). Atom was created by Nathan Sobo, who is now working on Zed (https://zed.dev/).

18. lsp-client

    16 1 3 6.6 Go

    A proxy between Textmate and language servers, vim-copilot and intelephense and volar/vue-language-server

    

    Zed is as close as it gets, I also use it, but it is still slow and cumbersome sometimes.

    https://github.com/tectiv3/lsp-client/issues/1

19. SaaSHub

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