Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

I studies graphics and animation years ago in the days of OS8 and OS9, and I believed all the hype about how much better Macs were than PC's. So, I was extremely excited when the school I was attending got a lab full of G3's and G4's.

Then, I started using them for hours on end and the beating that I received was through the horrors of using hockey puck mice, and mice without a right click. The trauma of the "click of death" on zip drives. Being exhausted and sleepless and helplessly furious after a render that was going to take 22 hours crashed after 21 hrs and 30 minutes. And, finally, the horror of realizing the that the amazing innovation of being able to "write my video files to DVD" was more or less useless because burning 5 minute video file on the g4's super drive took 2 hours.

After being bitterly disillusioned with apple and mac products those years, but feeling that there was something terribly terribly wrong with me because it was so obvious to everyone around me that "Macs are so much better for graphics".

So, I quietly saved up a dollar here and a dollar there until I finally had enough money to put together my first PC build and I installed Win2k on it, and never looked back.

After my first build, I felt so liberated by being able to upgrade my hardware when ever I felt like it, I never went back. My 20 hour renders at the computer lab took 1 hour on my new processor.

I've been doing my own builds, and swapping out parts in my PC's ever since. I've tried OSX repeatedly. I've built a couple of hackintosh's. But, every single time, the trauma and the horror, and the deep deep bitterness and resentment that I have harbored in my heart against Apple has never gone a way.

I loved Apple once. But after those 3 years of using exclusively Apple products, now I only have an Apple shaped scar burned deep in my soul.

I don't expect other people to agree with me. I know they think that I can't code worth a crap because I'm use Windows as my OS. The disdain and contempt that people have of my favorite OS hurts, but nothing will hurt me as much as Apple has. It's an emotional thing I have.

All that to say, I will never trust Apple again.

:)

Second impression: The animations are a bit contrived. The hit state on the file browser arrows could be larger.

Haskell and Erlang seem to run on Windows just fine when I mess around with them. The Lua environment on Windows is quite a bit better than the environment on Ubuntu. Mongrel2 doesn't, so I'll settle for running on Ubuntu for the time being.

Python runs beautifully, and the installers work quite a bit better than IMHO than the package system on Ubuntu. iPython is the shell that I live on most of the time, and when I need to automate server stuff, I find that Powershell is actually a much better shell than bash for a lot of stuff that I need on a regular basis. Being able to pipe around full objects rather than plain text is quite nice. When I don't have powershell lying around and I have to settle for bach, I find that I quite miss it.

The search engine that I'm building in my spare time doesn't seem to have any problems running on a Windows server, either.

So, no, I really don't get why people have such a chip on their shoulders when it comes to programmers running Win7. All I can think of is that people have some sort of techno-religious myopia. But, then again, there's jerks in all walks of life. I suppose programmers aren't exempt from that.