The big change, at least internally, between versions 2 and 3 was the move from python 2.6 to 3.3 for the plugin framework. Version 3 was introduced in January 2013 and is still in beta, but many people (including myself) have been using it exclusively for some time now. The current stable version, 2.02, was released in July 2013. The core framework is written in C++ and uses a custom UI toolkit, but a large part of Sublime Text’s success is due to its extensibility via python plugins, of which thousands have been written. At the time of its first release in 2008, TextMate was an extremely popular editor for OS X, but development on it had stagnated and developers were eager to jump to something with similar power and minimalist aesthetic, but was being more actively developed.

The core editor is the work of a single developer, Jon Skinner, who left his job at Google to pursue his dream of building a better text editor. Sublime Text is a popular cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) text editor. Click the 'Fork me on GitHub' ribbon on the right to get to the source. I welcome any edits and additions to this guide.

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