Open Source Software Review Part 2: Lovin is What I Got- Sublime (Text 2)

I don't know the age demographic to anyone who may be reading this but I can only hope that you're getting the joke of my title for this week's blog posts. It has been a pure (but happy) coincidence that the two forms of open source software that I have chosen to review both have some popular culture reference attached to them. In my last review of Mozilla's Firefox browsers as I was downloading it I could hear Katy Perry singing Firework in my head. In this review of Sublime Text 2 I could hear Santaria from the band Sublime from the mid-90's...My kids would totally be making fun of me right now by the way....
Back to business...I was kind of stumped as to what open source software I should download after my adventure with Firefox. I didn't want to take the easy way out and just find an open office or something like that...not that there's anything wring with doing that but I actually want to do myu own comparison and there is already so much written about that particular product so I had to go to the drawing board. I did a little research on CNet.com and of course I just Googled open source software.

I didn't need a text editor...I had just downloaded a new one (named simply TextEditor 1.2 ) for the web development class that I am currently taking since the one that came with my mac book is so old that I was having trouble getting it to work properly. I liked the new one, it does what it's supposed to do...nothing more and nothing less but I figured I'd at least try another one... Enter Sublime Text 2. I am very happy with this software. Once I got it all downloaded, I immediately opened it up and started entering in some code that I had been piddling around with over the weekend to get my practice on.

The Sublime Text 2 (ST2) is the black screen in this screen shot and you can tell a marked improvement in being able to see what it is you're doing on that screen versus TextEditor 1.2. I mean, in all honesty they are both simple text editors but the ST2 is a little more user friendly in that the way the bright colors clue you in to errors in your syntax a little better in my opinion and I also appreciate that it's intuitive in that when you start typing in commonly used syntax it takes a click of the tab key to finish it off and when you open a bracket it closes it so for us beginners THAT shouldn't be an issue anymore. Bottom line for me is that I like the colors...it's pretty and it makes me want to use it...simple as that.
I'd mentioned in my last post that in the past I had some definite aversion to open source. I guess I thought that it was cheap, and the quickest way to get malware placed on your computer or that hackers could come in and steal your identity by using it. Of course one should practice caution when downloading stuff from the Internet but I am big enough to admit when I've I'm wrong about something or that I've learned something and I have picked up on something pretty good with this piece of open source software gold.
So, that's the second of my three reviews. If  I missed something or there's a point you'd like to add please leave me a coment!