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Those were not invented by Sublime. Lots of older editors have those things, including TextMate and even GNU Emacs and XEmacs. XEmacs had a package manager since the early 1990s.

What Sublime has going for it versus these other editors is ease of use and a much better looking UI. But VS Code has that too, and it's free.




MS just doesn't do anything for free even it appears to be that way at the beginning. It simply tries to woo developers to play in their ecosystem.




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