I paid for Sublime Text
Curious, why Sublime Text in this day and age of VS Code dominance?<p>Sublime text was my first "in the middle" text editor, more featured than vim/emacs, but lighter weight than IntelliJ. I somehow got my internship company 
to buy me a license, which I ended up using for several years after leaving.<p>But then VS Code came along. I was a skeptic for years, as it was based on Atom/Electron, which I found really sluggish, and it was Microsoft.<p>The thing that converted me was the "it just works" extensions system. Most coding languages have syntax highlighting and intelligent code navigation out of the box, and if not, it's a few clicks away to install very well written extensions. Comparatively, it was a nightmare installing Sublime Text extensions.<p>And over the years, Microsoft has poured immense amounts of money into developing features for VS Code.