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Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by doktrin »

wbond wrote: post #7
klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

I've been very active on the forum, Discord, IRC and the Packages repo on GitHub. I don't think the stereotype of Sublime HQ being radio silent holds true any longer. We don't, however, make blog posts or tweets saying "we're still working on the next build." However, whenever anyone asks on the forum (twitter, etc) I'll be happy to tell you we are still working on the next build! :-)

> We don't, however, make blog posts or tweets saying "we're still working on the next build."

Why not? I think it would definitely be in ST's best interest to be more engaged with the community. It's only natural for users to worry that ST will go the way of TM, and nipping those concerns in the bud seems to make eminent business sense.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by SippinLean »

coldtea wrote: post #14
wbond wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been very active on the forum, Discord, IRC and the Packages repo on GitHub. I don't think the stereotype of Sublime HQ being radio silent holds true any longer. We don't, however, make blog posts or tweets saying "we're still working on the next build." However, whenever anyone asks on the forum (twitter, etc) I'll be happy to tell you we are still working on the next build! :-)

> I've been very active on the forum, Discord, IRC and the Packages repo on GitHub. I don't think the stereotype of Sublime HQ being radio silent holds true any longer. Yeah, it's the blog posts/tweets stuff that might be needed. Because most devs don't bother checking the forums (much less irc). In fact, and this is 100% true, I just spoke to a guy in the next office asked him enthusiastically "did you get the new S…

Your co-worker is technically correct, the last release of ST was version 2 in Sept 2016.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by littlehood »

swah wrote: post #13
sundvor wrote: post #3

I'm just hoping that ST3 will be marked as final soon, so that Skinner may collect the upgrade fees before VSC has completed its take over of the world (of free editors). As a long time fan, I do get - and admire - the perfectionism, but hopefully there's room for dot releases after the 3.0 final.

Sublime fans and VSC fans are almost disjoint sets...

I've used sublime 2 for some time, but changed to VSCode. Reason: VSCode is good enough for my stuff.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by kowdermeister »

klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

Total Commander isn't updated for a long time now and still one of the most useful windows file manager out there.

With ST we see slow but constant development, personally I don't care if the author is not a Twitter addict.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by jasonlfunk »

adrianN wrote: post #9

I'm somewhat bummed that Limetext [1] seems to be dead. I like Sublime, but I don't want to rely on nonfree software for my work. I switched to vim for now. [1] http://limetext.org/

I'm curious why you don't want to rely on non-free software for your work.

Usually paying for something helps it not to die, like limetext, for example.

For my work, I'd rather pay for something I rely on to increase the likelihood of it staying alive and keeping up with the work I need to do.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by FLUX-YOU »

swah wrote: post #13
sundvor wrote: post #3

I'm just hoping that ST3 will be marked as final soon, so that Skinner may collect the upgrade fees before VSC has completed its take over of the world (of free editors). As a long time fan, I do get - and admire - the perfectionism, but hopefully there's room for dot releases after the 3.0 final.

Sublime fans and VSC fans are almost disjoint sets...

Using both is very good. Sublime has some text transformation features that VSC doesn't have (I use a ton of regex replace and multi-cursor typing -- VSC has these but there are some menu items in ST that are not in VSC), VSC has a debugger, source control out of the box, and can use symbol servers.

VSC is very much prepared for cross-platform .NET Core development. ST3 is more generally prepared for a lot of other languages and project types. If you're on Windows using a .NET language, Visual Studio should supersede VSC in almost every way though, and ST works better as your lightweight text editor.

And now, a moment of silence for those poor Notepad++ fans. :)

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by Philipp__ »

If Sublime only had definite release! It's wonderful GUI editor! I stopped using it years ago when I switched to Vim and Emacs, but if it gets released I will buy it for sure, at least to have it on my work machine.

I like editing text in it, everything is so smooth and well looking, and it doesn't feel bloated. And I just hate all those Electron based editors, no matter how much incrementally they get better from month to month, they never even came close to Sublime's swiftness and polish. I tried VSCode last month, for few hours and uninstalled.

And people are often relaying on metrics and public opinion of usage of certain tool. Look, on latest StackOverflow Dev Survey Notepad++ was way ahead of everyone, it tells you something.

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