Thank you, Sublime HQ. You made my childhood memorable

My first laptop was an Asus VivoBook. It had 4GB RAM, a 500GB HDD, and absolutely no GPU. Just the CPU trying its best.

Running huge editors like VS Code (yes, I said VS Code is huge, because I had small hardware) or Android Studio was a constant battle of lags and glitches. And I never really liked the interface of Notepad++.

Then I found Sublime Text. It ran incredibly smoothly, taking up almost no space. It did not fight my hardware. It just sat there, waiting for me.

That is where I learned Python. HTML. JavaScript. PHP. That is also where I learned OpenCV and many more.

I still remember exactly how coding used to be back then. Split screens. Code on one side. Documentation and Stack Overflow on the other. You read something. You try it. You break it. You search for the exact error message. You try again. Starting from a Google search.

When I changed my laptop on 29 April 2024, one of the first things I downloaded was Sublime Text. But honestly, I have not used it since this whole AI wave took over.

The history of software development completely changed right underneath us. In just a span of one or two years, the market exploded with new platforms. Over 60 different AI coding tools, extensions, and assistants entered the picture. First it was Copilot. Then Cursor and Windsurf. Then came Trae, Kiro, Void, Jules, and Antigravity.

Now, some IDEs do not even have proper text editor spaces anymore, like Antigravity 2.0. It is literally just an AI chat. The split screen is gone. The struggle is gone.

Yet, Sublime Text is still sitting on my laptop. I do not know why I cannot bring myself to uninstall this little thing. Maybe because hitting uninstall feels a little like deleting that version of me. The kid who learned to program on a 4GB laptop.

And we do not talk about Stack Overflow anymore? We used to write code with the help of docs, Stack Overflow, and many online tools. Now it is just AI. It is definitely saving time, but honestly, it feels like it is making us dumber. Time flew by so fast that I almost forgot what writing code actually used to feel like.