Re:New Sublime Text update
by stevetrewick on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:14AM
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>The fact that a minor update got released isn't a rare enough occurrence to warrant a highly-voted post on HN.
Reality appears to disagree with you on this point.
>The fact that a minor update got released isn't a rare enough occurrence to warrant a highly-voted post on HN.
So, it's not as mature enough and still adds things regularly, including still struggling with speed issues?
How often does Vim have updates released? Who even cares for most of them?
Well, Sublime Text 3 is still a beta.
That doesn't mean much, it's just a label. ST3 has been stable (and my main editor) for 2+ years now.
React was 0.15 until recently, and Node was adopted by major companies like Microsoft at 0.xx versions.
The way people number their versions does not mean anything (React is actually in v15 now). 0.xx has no meaning, except if the developer of the software explicitly indicates it's unfinished. Version numbers are entirely subjective by default.
I agree with you on the stability of Sublime Text, but the label beta has, on the opposite of version numbers, a consistent meaning: it's not finished.
Snark aside, VSC has grown up quite a lot, very quickly. If you like Sublime, good for you, stick with it. But it looks like VSC is going to pick up support for more new things, faster. Personal favorite: support exists to plug in third-party debuggers and get debug tools/build errors inside VSC.