The Love for Sublime Text!

I have been an ardent fan of sublime text for the last 4 years. I have never considered any other IDE for ruby. Here's how I am able to work effectively using sublime text and why is it hard for someone like me to switch to any other IDEs.

Quick Pros:

• Easy to set up
• No learning curve
• Simple. Fast. (much like the success of WhatsApp)
• Hassle-free for beginners (just focus on one thing - code)

Tools/Plugins that I use in Sublime:

1. Rubocop
2. Git Blame/Annotate
3. Bracket Highlighter
4. Snippets (in-built)

What I use 99% of the time:

1. Cmd + P - switching between files
2. Cmd + R - searching for a method in a file
3. Cmd + Shift + F - global search

I am happy to delegate other activities to the terminal.

• Version Control - Terminal/ SourceTree
• Debugging/ REPL/ Server - Terminal

After spending quite some time with Sublime Text, I started looking for some IDEs. These two caught my eye.

• VS Code
• RubyMine

Both of these provides a complete package for development - code, commit, REPL, debug/server.

They have added support for docker, reviewing PRs, configuring multiple build tasks. You never have to go out of it to do something.

Somehow I felt these overwhelming and never once I considered switching to any of these in the past 4 years.

Reasons for hanging on to Sublime Text:

1. Most of the time, at least 5 projects would be open in different windows, yet Chrome would be laughing at the RAM consumption of Sublime Text.
   To say, lightweight will be an understatement

2. No boot-time whatsoever. Opens in a flash

3. Strong muscle memory of key bindings (working with multiple cursors, swapping lines, find previous/next occurrence of a word)

4. The most important part - feel and comforts of using it

Now that I am considering it's time that I give a shot to either of VS Code or RubyMine. I will follow this up with whys and hows of migrating from Sublime Text.

PS: Sublime Text, you have been a great friend!