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Which is more productive for a professional software engineer: Sublime Text or Notepad++?

24th November 2013

My answer to Which is more productive for a professional software engineer: Sublime Text or Notepad++? on Quora

Sublime Text 2. It is cross-platform and hence won’t lock you in to Windows.

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