It’s kind of a “meta plugin” that makes tinkering with your setup super easy. Package Control: Sublime Text has Package Control which is a plugin manager that let’s you install and uninstall other plugins directly from within the editor. I’ve reviewed some of them here: Sublime Text Plugin Reviews. Several fantastic packages for Python development are available. That way you can build a custom editor setup that does exactly what you want and how you want it. Plugin ecosystem: Something that’s drawn me towards Sublime is its fantastic community that wrote thousands of plugins for it. I don’t think I’ve ever lost any data due to a crash or some other issue. Stability and reliability: I’ve been using Sublime as my main editor for almost four years and it’s always been rock solid for me in terms of stability. I don’t restart my development environment too often, but when I do it’s nice to be back up and running within a few seconds - rather than waiting half a minute for a ginormous IDE to boot up.

Also note that Sublime starts up super fast. My (unscientific) personal impression comparing Sublime with similar editors like Atom or VS Code confirms this.

Pavel Fatin compared typing latencies between several popular editors and Sublime Text is consistently among the fastest and most responsive ones in his list. Performance: Sublime is one of the fastest editors available. And while I never got the hang of Vim, I feel like I’m qualified to give Sublime Text a relatively unbiased review. I’ve worked with colleagues who are big Vim proponents. I used a number of editors and IDEs for writing Python including P圜harm, IntelliJ with Python plugins, Atom, Visual Studio Code, BBEdit, and emacs.

In this post I’ll review the status of Python development with Sublime Text as of 2016.ĭisclaimer: I’m a fan and long-time user of Sublime Text. When you ask for editor recommendations as a Python developer one of the top choices you’ll hear about is Sublime Text.

Beginner guide to sublime for mac