I also think that the &quot;no competition&quot; point is overblown, but Sublime was still quite unique. It is very general purpose, not focused on any particular domain like Brackets, multiplatform, and with a great plugin ecosystem. It was a swiss-knife editor, that you could throw at anything and was always great.<p>I don&#x27;t use it any more, but a few years ago I did everything, from writing a paper in latex to webdev to C, in Sublime. It was by far the king to my toolbelt.<p>* Brackets was only good for web (wasn&#x27;t it?)<p>* Visual Studio Code is newer than Atom<p>* Notepad++ is, I think, quite outdated, and windows only<p>* I like Kate, but not so much out of KDE, that is very niche compared to Windows, OSX, and the wider Linux world<p>* Emacs (and Vim!) are hard to learn and slowly dying off[1]<p>* Other specific editors are... specific, and thus not direct competition to ST<p>[1] Might be my perception. I hope they&#x27;ll never really die; I use both (Emacs+Evil and GVim), and learned in the last 2 years, but I&#x27;m the only one I know.