Sublime Text

Sublime Text is one of the best text editors on the market and an essential resource in the toolkit of any programmer or developer. Whether you're working in web development with languages like HTML and CSS or delving deep into data science with Python, Sublime has you covered and offers all of the essential features you could expect from a modern text editor without having to worry about a cluttered screen or piles of non-essential information being paneled before you. That said, there are a lot of text editors available, and each seems to have its own dedicated fan base. Whether Sublime is the right choice for you inevitably comes down to your personal preferences and your unique needs as a programmer.

Sublime benefits from a lifespan of over a decade. This has allowed the developers to continue to roll out new features, respond to the needs of their clients, and continue to respond to the development in other text editors and produce their own responses. All the fundamental features you'd expect to find are here. Syntax highlighting is available by standard and can be customized to suit your needs. You can even put together different templates depending on the languages you want to use. Autocomplete is also a given and works with both global attributes and those set within the content of your document. Of course, both of these features are almost a given with a modern text editor. Less fundamental but also common is the inclusion of code folding, so you can hide the information you don't need at any given moment for the sake of clarity but still have it readily available with the click of a button. Sublime supports dozens of languages, so if you're multilingual, chances are you can handle all of your coding in this text editor alone.

The real strength of Sublime comes in how expandable it is, and that's an advantage that's only enhanced by its long-lasting and expansive install base. Impressively, there are thousands of these plug-ins available for Sublime. Getting them installed on your version is a breeze, but sorting through the ones that you want to use among all the ones available might be a bit more of a challenge. The breadth of these plug-ins is truly impressive. Whether you're looking to upload your code directly to your server using an FTP client, take the fundamentals of Sublime and transform it into a full blown IDE, or simply transform it to make it specially tailored to your WordPress development, the options are readily available.

That modular nature of Sublime makes it difficult to review in and of itself. With no plug-ins added, it's a nimble and adaptable little text editor. With the right combination of plug-ins and themes, it can become practically whatever you need it to be.