However, as with a lot of editors, it’s got problems with big files. I do like the fact that it shows a progress indicator when loading it, but it takes a minute or so for it to read a 100 MB file. When read, it uses 130 MB of memory, which, I expect, will increase exponentially when trying to load larger files.

Of course, that’s not limited to Sublime alone – Notepad++ has it too – except that Notepad++ loads the same file within 3 seconds on the same system.

Of course, nothing beats vim (or gVim) when it comes to reading and editing large files, so far. It’s just not as shiny.

Still, $60 is rather steep for what, I think, is basically Notepad++ with a different default color scheme and a minimap.

“… I must admit that the developers of Sublime Text did one hell of a job. If you can spare the money, and thereby support the people that made this possible, I urge you to do so. Licenses can be used on as many machines as you want, and you’ll automatically receive licenses to all future upgrades.”

I too am surprised that you insist on calling any sofware with a designated trial period and price a type of freeware.

Personal computers and the web have not been around that long, but I suppose that you are too young to remember that designations like “shareware” and “freeware” and “free software” were originally (and almost always) based solely on how software developers described their programs, and what the developers asked of the software users.

In the early-to-mid-90s, developers like Microsoft were the most likely to actually enforce trial periods.

Indeed, most shareware developers did not even specify a specific trial period, or even specify an exact price. *But* shareware developers did ask for payment from people who continued to use the software — thus, the software was called “shareware” NOT “freeware”.

Sadly, of course, such arrangements proved difficult to maintain in a cynical, individualistic, capitalist culture.

Over time, more and more people downloaded the software, and more and more of the software users were uninformed about — or simply did not care about — the ethos of trust, and the communal values behind shareware.

As a result, a growing percentage of shareware users just considered the programs to be free because the developers were not literally forcing the users to pay.

So, alas, developers began specifying specific prices and specific trial periods, then developers began enforcing those prices and time periods in various ways. Today, it is very rare to find genuine, old-fashioned shareware anymore.

And perhaps there’s no point in promoting genuine shareware when so many people will just ignore the words of developers and call it freeware.

You might say such people are just behaving according to human nature. But that “human nature” excuse is only that — an excuse, an alibi, for engaging in self-serving behavior, and for refusing to consider that another world beyond capitalism is possible.

Of course, another world is possible; it just takes some creativity and cooperation — and perhaps a willingness to abandon cynicism, and to embrace empathy and trust.

Steve

We are not encouraging piracy at all. At the end of the post we even encourage our readers to buy the software if they can. We only state the obvious – that the ‘trial’ can be used indefinitely. Get your facts straight.

“Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is no enforced time limit for the evaluation.”

Let me know if you encounter any problems after those 30 days. I still haven’t seen that message.

I can’t believe how a respected site as this encourage software piracy.

it happened again and this time I took a screen shot: http://i38.tinypic.com/1gpsmq.png

hopefully you dont lose any of the features when the trial expires