Re:Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
by coldtea on Friday June 28, 2013 @02:24PM
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>I use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.
Life has a "low bus factor".
This bus might hit YOU, after all.
Enjoy what you can, while you can. Who cares if you have to move to something else in 5 years?
Do you feel like the years you used TextMate were wasted? Haven't you wrote stuff with it?
I've seen tons of promising OSS projects becoming abandon-ware when a few core developers left -- or taking a turn and getting rewritten in a way I couldn't stand.
Case in point, TextMate becoming Open Source (isn't that the case, IIRC?) didn't really help it overcome obsoleteness. It got some new builds, and a few guys tinkering, but nothing worthy to use as a 2013 editor.
Life has a "low bus factor".
This bus might hit YOU, after all.
Enjoy what you can, while you can. Who cares if you have to move to something else in 5 years?
Do you feel like the years you used TextMate were wasted? Haven't you wrote stuff with it?
I've seen tons of promising OSS projects becoming abandon-ware when a few core developers left -- or taking a turn and getting rewritten in a way I couldn't stand.
Case in point, TextMate becoming Open Source (isn't that the case, IIRC?) didn't really help it overcome obsoleteness. It got some new builds, and a few guys tinkering, but nothing worthy to use as a 2013 editor.