As of the writing of this article Sublime Text has release version 4 and moving forward with semantic versioning - so no more major version releases. Once you have a license, Sublime Text can be installed and used on as many of your systems as you like. Notepad++ is freely available, however Sublime Text is a paid product at $99USD, which gives you 3 years of updates.

I use simple project examples in C and Python, HTML, CSS and Javascript to get some comparison breadth.įor this comparison I am using Sublime Text 3 installed on Ubuntu 20.04 and Notepad++ v8.1.9 on the same machine with language specific plugins when available. My approach to conduct this evaluation was to pick the IDE features that I use most often and compare the experience between Notepad++ and Sublime Text 3. In this post I take Sublime Text up against Notepad++ using the following 7 IDE criteria: So which is the better choice for development? And coming in at $99 USD, is Sublime Text worth paying for? These editors run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Sublime Text 3 is a commercial tool built by Sublime HQ, and Notepad++ is written in C++ by Don Ho. Sublime Text and Notepad++ are two great editors for coding.

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