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Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

There is a point (mainly inertia and speed), but there won't be one for much longer. ST3 is a really great text editor, but it is only being developed by a single programmer.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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post #5

I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

There is a point (mainly inertia and speed), but there won't be one for much longer. ST3 is a really great text editor, but it is only being developed by a single programmer.

Adding more mothers to the production of one baby isn't necessarily going to speed up the process... I suspect that creating a text editor is not an embarrassingly parallel problem.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

Well, Sublime Text is much fast er.

Absolutely. My one and only complaint with Atom is that it eats up so much CPU. Just typing sends my usage over 50% :(

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

Atom was very slow and cumbersome for me, nowhere near as polished as Sublime Text.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a point (mainly inertia and speed), but there won't be one for much longer. ST3 is a really great text editor, but it is only being developed by a single programmer.

Adding more mothers to the production of one baby isn't necessarily going to speed up the process... I suspect that creating a text editor is not an embarrassingly parallel problem.

Yawn. Of course a small team will be able to ship this thing faster and with more features. If you add 20 more people that probably won't help, but 3 or 5 should.

Re: Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

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I don't really see much point in Sublime Text now that GitHub's Atom is a pretty much a one->one replica but free, open-source and has a rather nice package manager for plugins.

Atom is far too slow, and eats battery life. This is because of the technical decision to render text in a web view.

The slowness is not a solvable problem. Therefore Atom will fail.

On a more positive note, I am so happy to see SublimeText re-activated. The previous builds worked fine for me, but it's always good to see progress.

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