# 🔗 They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2026-08-09
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/08/09/they-dont-make-em-like-sublime-text-anymore/
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> Sublime Text is still around. The last [stable build](https://www.sublimetext.com/download#changelog) was released May 2025. There are [dev builds](https://www.sublimetext.com/dev) 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](https://dbushell.com/2026/08/07/sublime-text/)

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.