I’m debating on getting BBEdit or upgrading my license of Sublime Text. Am I putting money towards an identy that no longer defines who I am? Should I just “settle” for VS Code?

@mandaris I faced the same dilemma after retirement and chose to stick to VSCode (I chose the open source version VSCodium), since I no longer felt I could justify $ on a code editor. I have always had a BBEdit license though…

@dsh1705 I find it funny that VS Code is based off of the Atom editor which GitHub was a major part of. I don't remember if they created it. I sometimes think of buying a license to BBEdit because they sponsor my favorite podcasts.

@alanralph I had originally bought it because I wanted to support more development of sublime text. I remember talking to someone else and they thought they were clever for using it without paying. I understand we're not all made of money, but we were both in the tech industry and expecting people to pay us for our software. I mean, it just came off as really unaware.

I think I'm in the same boat as wanting to not do what everyone else is doing. But it gets really hard to swim upstream sometimes.