TextMate 2.0

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Post by jjuliano » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 9:35 PM UTC

Re: TextMate 2.0

#2

Post by whalesalad » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:15 PM UTC

Loved the original TM and built a ton of things with it. It was my daily driver for a good 4-5 years through many projects, startups and full time jobs.

Jumped ship to Sublime when it was released because it was evolving much quicker. Was glad to have backwards compat on a lot of things like themes. Still have my modified “Made or Code” theme kicking today. Tried TM2 a ton during the betas but never managed to reach the same level of productivity as Sublime. My muscle memory is too strong now and I can’t find any reason to leave.

Regardless, this is a great accomplishment/milestone and I’m very stoked for Allan and the team. Maybe I’ll need to take it for another test drive.

Re: TextMate 2.0

#3

Post by nimz » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC

Great to hear and congratulations to the team. Amazing persistence. I used to be a huge Textmate fan - it was so revolutionary in its time. Unfortunately, I think it is too late. The Google Trends comparison of Textmate, Sublime Text and VS Code tells the story: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by eddietejeda » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

I’ve used TextMate 2 since it’s earliest beta release and always found it fast and reliable. If you want the speed of a native Mac OS X editor, in my opinion, nothing beats TextMate. Congrats to the developers for this major milestone.

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by xenihn » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:22 PM UTC

I still use TextMate on a daily basis. It's what I use as the macOS equivalent of Notepad (I know there's TextEdit, but TextMate is better IMO). I also use it as a programming scratchpad. Mainly for Swift and Python.

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by Nicksil » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:23 PM UTC

nimz wrote: post #3

Great to hear and congratulations to the team. Amazing persistence. I used to be a huge Textmate fan - it was so revolutionary in its time. Unfortunately, I think it is too late. The Google Trends comparison of Textmate, Sublime Text and VS Code tells the story: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Too late for what?

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by snazz » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:28 PM UTC

nimz wrote: post #3

Great to hear and congratulations to the team. Amazing persistence. I used to be a huge Textmate fan - it was so revolutionary in its time. Unfortunately, I think it is too late. The Google Trends comparison of Textmate, Sublime Text and VS Code tells the story: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

It’s possible that native graphical editors will increase in popularity at some point. There’s probably a niche of people who don’t like the potentially poor performance of Electron-based editors but don’t want to learn (or find that they dislike) terminal-based editors like Vim and Emacs. Who knows? Google Trends isn’t an accurate way to tell the popularity of programming languages either.

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by arthurcolle » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:28 PM UTC

Nicksil wrote: post #6

nimz wrote: post #3

Great to hear and congratulations to the team. Amazing persistence. I used to be a huge Textmate fan - it was so revolutionary in its time. Unfortunately, I think it is too late. The Google Trends comparison of Textmate, Sublime Text and VS Code tells the story: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Too late for what?

Dominance of the text editor market. TextMate was pretty meh, Coda I tried and thought was ridiculously overpriced for its total lack of features. Sublime was great for its time, I even paid for a license, but Atom is just too good for its value (free).

But apparently VS Code is becoming extremely popular. I wonder if its literally just because of GitLens (still missing from other text editors).

Disclaimer: RubyMine / IntelliJ for life.

Re: TextMate 2.0

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Post by vr46 » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:28 PM UTC

Wow, 13 years after I really got into it... and I’ll be happy to install it. But I’ll stick with Neovim, can’t really justify switching to an editor that might not be around. Good achievement but they need an entirely new user base!

Re: TextMate 2.0

#10

Post by steve19 » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 10:30 PM UTC

I have a lot of respect for Allan Odgaard. Something happened, and I don't want to speculate, that caused him to take a break from Textmate (version 2.0 was supposed to come out 9 or so years ago).

Instead of abandoning the project he open sourced it and almost a decade later it is being released.

Textmate is now my graphical Notepad on Mac, with VS Code being my IDE and vim my text editor.

Thanks Allan.