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Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by samueloph »

joncalhoun wrote: post #54
samueloph wrote: post #33

imagine living in a world where a good software like sublime text was free software... i know i know, to monetize selling free software is impossible (when people say they're monetizing selling free software they're actually selling services related to that free software, not the software itself), but one can dream... edit-> some people are confusing the term "free software", i'd like to clarify that i mean free as i…

I honestly don't see any reason for Sublime Text to ever be more free than it is. The unlicensed version works as well as the paid version. The only real usability difference is that it asks you about a license every so often. If that reminder starts to annoy you it likely indicates that you are using ST often enough that you should pay for it. I don't understand why so many developers are willing to pay thousands to…

it's not that i ain't willing to pay for its license, its that i prefer it to be free software (the problem is that being free software they'll have to change a lot of things to monetize as much as if it isn't).

about the reasons to be "more free" (as in free spech): collaborative development

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by bdcravens »

benbristow wrote: post #31
tuananh wrote: post #20

$80 for something we make a living on is very reasonable.

Not when Atom is pretty much the exact same thing but open-source and free.

It's not "pretty much the exact same thing". ST is much faster and can handle very large files (say, CSVs in the hundreds of MBs) (as an aside, VS Code is much more performant than Atom)

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by rootlocus »

Nvorzula wrote: post #60

I took a dive away from Sublime Text over to Atom a few years ago because I was starting up some contract work, didn't want to pay for a copy, and didn't want to continue doing the hokey thing of using a friend's license for work purposes. So I got use to Atom just fine, plus the UI is nice. I mean, Atom is nice. The package management is all there and frequent updates are great, but...I don't write JS/HTML/CSS/PHP.…

Did you just write 3 paragraphs of Atom review on the sublime 3.0 release announcement?

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mattl »

samueloph wrote: post #33

imagine living in a world where a good software like sublime text was free software... i know i know, to monetize selling free software is impossible (when people say they're monetizing selling free software they're actually selling services related to that free software, not the software itself), but one can dream... edit-> some people are confusing the term "free software", i'd like to clarify that i mean free as i…

yeah, my hope is that eventually they'll release it as free software. I'd be happy to donate at that point.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by jrimbault »

OutsmartDan wrote: post #46

Amazing, I don't think i've ever used "beta" products for so long. Glad it's finally official!

I think I played Minecraft just before it went into beta and stopped playing it when it "came out". I don't know how long that was, but Sublime Text 3 beta certainly felt even longer.

edit: correction, the beta of minecraft lasted only a year, so it definitely felt longer to me. Weird memory tricks eh.

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by bmh_ca »

Nvorzula wrote: post #60

I took a dive away from Sublime Text over to Atom a few years ago because I was starting up some contract work, didn't want to pay for a copy, and didn't want to continue doing the hokey thing of using a friend's license for work purposes. So I got use to Atom just fine, plus the UI is nice. I mean, Atom is nice. The package management is all there and frequent updates are great, but...I don't write JS/HTML/CSS/PHP.…

I second this. I meander back and forth between Sublime and Atom, for exactly this reason - Sublime is faster, but Atom has done some key things better (e.g. package management).

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by tonydanza »

reificator wrote: post #39
eptakilo wrote: post #10

I primarily use VSCode as my editor but I used Sublime back in the days. I haven't touched it in a while. How do these two editors compare lately?

I'm in the same boat, though I find it unlikely that I would go back to Sublime at this point. VSCode is free, (mostly) MIT, has a unified debugger, great git support, integrated terminal emulator, and a nice healthy extension community. Sublime is cheap for how often you'll use it, but not free. It's proprietary. Git support even with paid plugins is lacking, especially compared to VS Code. I'm glad I bought Sublime…

I'd check out GitSavvy for sublime, it wipes the floor with the VSCode VCS

Re: Sublime Text 3.0

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Post by mstade »

I honestly can't believe I'm saying this, but: can you please enable me to buy a new license for 4.0 even though it may not even be on the road map yet? Or switch to / enable a subscriber model which is paid yearly and gives access to all upgrades?

I rely so much on sublime for my day to day work and I fear the $80 or whatever I paid for it whenever ago is too cheap for the amount of value I'm getting out of it, and I'd hate to see this magnificent piece of software fall by the wayside because of an unsustainable business model.

Of course, if the business is perfectly sustainable then you know, carry on as you where.

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