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Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by munchor »

btipling wrote: post #26

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere. If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to pa…

Yeah, Vim and Emacs are actively developed (I checked the repositories the other day, commits every day on both) and the communities are huge.

The editors are different, yes, but both brilliant.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by nallerooth »

I saw this one a while back (a couple of weeks, I think). While it looked nice, I didn't "get it" - why would I use an editor that is severely limited (only HTML/CSS/JS) when there are other editors out there that supports pretty much everything?

Sure, you can "improve" (read: mess up) the editor by changing it's source code - but I still don't see the point. I'm using Sublime Text 2, with it's package manager. Everything I need is a few key presses away, and there's usually no need to restart the editor after installing something.

Also, I'd never use an editor that didn't support remote sync on save, version control, etc. (Managing component source code outside of the webroot makes it so much easier to handle in git.)

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by jessaustin »

JanezStupar wrote: post #23
newishuser wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...

I always thought that HN's two favourite editors were VI and EMACS...

I thought it was a joke.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

btipling wrote: post #26

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere. If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to pa…

Good grief. Emacs and VIM use has actually been going down since the 90s as a percentage of the developer community, and no one is predicting that they will regain market share.

And back to the original article, live programming and rich editing experiences is the future; emacs and VIM will go the way of the typewriter and x-terminal.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by nicholassmith »

btipling wrote: post #26

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere. If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to pa…

I use Sublime on Linux/OS X/Windows. Please tell me more about how my editor of choice isn't available everywhere? If you're a sysop, or a devop and you spend a non-trivial amount of time remoted to strange and random servers then learning vim or emacs is a good choice. Unless its a Windows server.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by Derbasti »

btipling wrote: post #26

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere. If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to pa…

I have a feeling that we might add Sublime to that list at some point. It is cross-platform and easily extensible. I hope it can survive long enough to accumulate enough plugins and developers and be open-sourced at some point.

But that I'm an Emacs guy.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by Derbasti »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #36
btipling wrote: post #26

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere. If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to pa…

Good grief. Emacs and VIM use has actually been going down since the 90s as a percentage of the developer community, and no one is predicting that they will regain market share. And back to the original article, live programming and rich editing experiences is the future; emacs and VIM will go the way of the typewriter and x-terminal.

Right. Who uses terminals these days?! Except just about every developer I know.
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