I paid for Sublime Text
Curious, why Sublime Text in this day and age of VS Code dominance?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.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.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.And over the years, Microsoft has poured immense amounts of money into developing features for VS Code.