<story><title>Sublime Text 3 Public Beta</title><url>http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I&amp;#x27;m not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn&amp;#x27;t do it.&lt;p&gt;Then I made the realization that the editor you use has no bearing on your skill as a developer (well, as long as you&amp;#x27;re not using Notepad). I picked up Sublime, and my productivity shot up by an order of magnitude. It&amp;#x27;s fun, supports every single language I&amp;#x27;ve written in, and has a plugin out there for my favorite color scheme of all time, Tomorrow Night (previously it was Solarized Dark). With sublime I can code circles around my former vim-imprisoned self any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>Your editor does have a bearing on your skill as a developer.  When I interview candidates, the question I ask is &amp;quot;what is your favourite editor?&amp;quot;  I don&amp;#x27;t actually care (much) what the answer is, but I do care that the developer periodically examines the tools they use a lot, and see if they can improve their productivity.&lt;p&gt;Editors do make a difference in your productivity - that is why people have favourites and why they have flamewars.  That productivity matters.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sublime Text 3 Public Beta</title><url>http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I&amp;#x27;m not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn&amp;#x27;t do it.&lt;p&gt;Then I made the realization that the editor you use has no bearing on your skill as a developer (well, as long as you&amp;#x27;re not using Notepad). I picked up Sublime, and my productivity shot up by an order of magnitude. It&amp;#x27;s fun, supports every single language I&amp;#x27;ve written in, and has a plugin out there for my favorite color scheme of all time, Tomorrow Night (previously it was Solarized Dark). With sublime I can code circles around my former vim-imprisoned self any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markbao</author><text>As a vim user, I feel as if the essence of vim &lt;i&gt;is an extension of my mind&lt;/i&gt;. Much like riding a bicycle, I instinctively think &amp;quot;select this line and the four lines below it and copy it&amp;quot; as &amp;quot;V4jy&amp;quot; with little cognitive thought. Kind of cool from a cognitive science standpoint.</text></comment>