What about JetBrains Fleet? I'm not sure it's open source, but it's free and I think it's a direct competitor to VS Code.
Is it open source?
I am on the path VSCodium --> Lapce under NixOS for visual editors and to decorporate my workflow. i.e. away from VSCode which is [otherwise] exceptional.
However, Helix looks incredible.
Now it absolutely isn't open source or even free, so if that is a must feel free to ignore me, but I personally do still really like using Sublime. Once you install SublimeLSP I find it genuinely really clean to work with. And even though it's technically not free, you can use its free trial version for as long as you want (with the only drawback being an annoying popup), if you do buy it it's a one-time payment, not a subscription, and the package eco system is mostly open source (SublimeLSP e.g. is open source).
Again, not free, but much faster, more light weight and imo cleaner than VSCode, and definitely not very corpo given the rather small size of Sublime HQ.
I’ve used sublime for over a decade and simply cannot stand how slow other editors are in comparison. Searching, jumping between files, etc is all just as fast one our huge production codebase as they are on my tiny personal projects. It’s insane
I use Atom for personal projects and Sublime for work - it's shocking how fast Sublime loads up in comparison.
Hopefully Atom's successor can address the performance issues, by the other comment threads here it looks like Pulsar is a contender
I agree with all this except the "one time payment" is only good for three years of updates.
Sublime Text is great.
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