Robin Sloan:

I still use Sublime Text for all of my programming and all of my newsletter-ing. […] The app is simple and superfast; I have it set up exactly the way I like it […], and it’s difficult for me to imagine ever switching to anything else.

Here is a piece of software as sturdy and obedient as a cast-iron pan.

Sloan links to a piece by David Bushnell about Sublime Text, who writes:

I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I know is that I can place my text cursor and read the surrounding code without a bombardment of popovers, pop-unders, pop-left-and-rights, pop-inlines, pop-in-and-out-too-fast-to-sees. […]

The perfect dev stack is a collection of software that each does one job and doesn’t suffer main character syndrome. I want to code, I’m not looking to make lifestyle choices. I don’t want a bloated everything app. Don’t get me started on the “unified toolchain” plague! Show me the latest VC-backed build tool and I’ll show you ten lines of PHP that does a better job.

If you’re fed up of the absolute state of things, Sublime Text still works.

This is all very much in line with the post about TextEdit from a while back.

I do care who develops good software since, at the very least, I want to give them credit. This is the best I could find, if you too are curious. It was prompted by someone asking:

I’ve been a Sublime Text user for over a decade, and now a Sublime Merge user, too. But it occurs to me that I know almost nothing about the team/​company behind it.

I wonder if this is a nice example of the (quiet) posture of the company matching the (utilitarian) personality of the software it is making.