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Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ

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Re: Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ

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This is very nice to see. Just last week Sublime started releasing new dev builds after close to a year of silence. Sublime is my favorite text editor and it seemed like it was going to drift off into obscurity but this will definitely inject new life into it. Sublime didn't just make a hire, they hired the guy responsible for an arguably large part of sublime's success.

Re: Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ

#10

Love Sublime, and honestly feel like if there was more financial support from developers it would have even more marketshare. Congratulations Will, check out his super useful sftp package as well: https://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp .

I don't think money was an issue. Wes Bos gave some numbers on his Sublime Text learning course and extrapolated that the Sublime team had made a few million easily for what was a one developer operation.

He based his numbers on assuming that the people that paid for his course to learn sublime would only be a fraction of those that paid to actually use sublime, so I think that sounds reasonable.

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