Re:Working on It (TextMate)
by a2tech on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:21AM
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I'm not sure it matters any more. TextMate is a wonderful product and compared to other editors at its time of release it was AMAZING. But the developers lack of attention to the product (publicly at least) and the long wait time between the last public release has destroyed the lead TextMate had. These days the options are almost endless for text editors on OS X-many of them with all the great features from TextMate and encompassing all the great features requested for TextMate 2. Komodo Edit for example is free, cross platform, includes loads of language bundles, multiple tabs, remote editing (SFTP, FTP, SCP), scripting and code completion. MacVIM brings all the power of VIM to the OS X GUI.
I don't bear any ill will to this guy-I still think TextMate is a great product. But I think his slow movement has doomed the product in the long term.
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Both MacVIM and Komodo Edit have been around for years, and haven't really changed much while Allan has been working on TextMate 2, so I can't see how that's relevant.
According to their git changelog:
http://repo.or.cz/w/MacVim.git?a=tags
and their Google Code updates list:
http://code.google.com/p/macvim/updates/list
MacVim has seen a huge number of changes in the 2+ years that TextMate has been under development: not least Leopard support, Vim 7.2 integration, and a ton of interface and speed improvements. They're on Snapshot 45 right now...