What is the best text editor for programmers based on your practical experience as a programmer? And why?

I personally like notepad++, but you can't go wrong with sublimetext.

Also a new commer is Visual stdio code, and alot of people are loving it. 

it really doesn't matter as long as you know what you are doing, it's only a matter of personal prefrence

I have been using Sublime Text so far and I feel its the best. Light-weight and the new version 3 has flat minimal design which look cool. Also it is highly customizable according to your taste!

Atom, because it is light and supported all programming languages I used so far.