Sublime Text is still around. The last stable build was released May 2025. There are dev builds as recent as July this year. 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.

Source: They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore

I lol’d at this. It’s true that design of text editors is moving to a high-density-information upon every cursor movement to give the user “the complete context” of their code.

I sense it’s coming from a state of ever more “generated code” and to give the user a semblance of control over that. I don’t think it’s necessarily successful in either of those efforts.

That said, I do think that I find a zen moment with Zed. In fact, Zed, after removing AI / agents and all that crap and modified with some sane settings updates is what gives me a modern Sublime Text. :)

It’s funny to me that Cory just decided to go back to the original. I’ve not installed Sublime Text on my device since 2024 and I was recently pleasantly surprised to find my wife still using it.