Both seem to do these decently and is really dependent on the plugins and not the application itself.Īgain this is plugin specific (specifically Coldfusion) Aptana wins this item, but CFEclipse is a much more mature plugin for Aptana than the CF plugin for Sublime. I use snippets, and code completion heavily. These are about the same, but changing colors for syntax highlighting is slightly easier in Aptana than Sublime, but just barely. This may not seem important but I spend 80% of my time inside the software, so setting up a color scheme is important to me. I work in a corporate environment where my hardware is fairly old so this is vital. Please note that some of these items are more plugin specific and not necessarily SublimeText/Aptana themselves. It took me all of 3 days to decide to purchase the license. I just recently moved from Aptana to SublimeText for Coldfusion development. If you plan on debugging a lot I would go with Aptana, but Sublime Text is my favorite for everyday work. If I have a bug in my code that isn't apparent at a quick glance, I will usually step through my code line-by-line in the debugger using Aptana. Since it is an IDE instead of a text editor, the code completion seems to be a little better. I don't use Aptana much, but it does have some nice advantages over Sublime. I installed the 'Live Reload' package into Sublime and my browser so that as I make changes, it is reflected in real time in my browser. You can get code completion and snippets for just about any language you plan to program in. Sublime has a ton of plugins that are super easy to install using Package Control. It's hard to compare the two, because Sublime Text is a text editor with some great features and Aptana is a full blown IDE.

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