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		aphextron on June 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How did Sublime Text get traction? >I am yet to buy a license for ST but I use it always. Same. I really wish they would drop the price a bit. I'd love to support the developers, but $70 for a text editor is just crazy.

gravypod on June 12, 2016 [–]

Yea, it's just not affordable to me.

I'd love to use it as I'm tired of using 7+ IDEs and I'd like to migrate to a "One True IDE"

Being a college student that's unemployed 70$ is a bit steep.

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