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0 pointserichdongubler9y ago0 comments

I agree that the default look for Sublime isn't impressive, but it's really easy to make it look awesome with a single plugin like this: http://equinsuocha.io/material-theme/#/default

To your point about being "not much of an IDE": Sublime doesn't try to be an IDE. It's a text editor, which approaches a fundamentally different facet of writing code. Plugins with Package Control also make it easy to get more IDE-like features -- do you think that they're not discoverable enough, maybe? How could it be improved?

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pvg9y ago

I use Sublime, own a Sublime license, etc.

I'm not talking about the colours and icons - just that it doesn't use native UI and what UI elements are implemented are quite clunky. It's very much not 'native the way Apple likes native'. It doesn't try to be an IDE so there wouldn't be much point in Apple buying it to 'compete with VS Code'.

do you think that they're not discoverable enough, maybe? How could it be improved?

Mostly, I think the Sublime developers don't consider this much of a priority and are ok with it being a clunkfest. Given that it's a small team making a living selling a niche cross-platform tool at a mere $70 a license, this is hardly unreasonable. But pretty or intuitive it ain't.

Compare this to the extension/theme management or preferences UI in VS Code. It's also very much 'non-native' but usability is clearly something the developers are concerned about.

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