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Re: Sublime Merge

#11

Post by tstrimple »

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and leaned more into curmudgeon aesthetics instead. The general sentiment here seems to be far more of don't try to innovate. Just do what we expect you to in the way we expect you to which matches how we would have built this tool 20 years ago.

> Cloud? Why? You can literally do anything on a VPS with Postgres!

> AI? Not on my watch! I can't imagine a tool that does more than VIM two decades ago!

> Javascript?! What a shit language. Everything should be written in Java or C++.

Re: Sublime Merge

#12

Post by teaearlgraycold »

tstrimple wrote: post #11

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and lean…

I like cloud, AI, and Javascript - and I’m not ashamed!

Re: Sublime Merge

#13

Post by fastball »

solarkraft wrote: post #5

I liked Sublime Merge when I used it a few years ago, mainly because it's available on Linux. There were some things about the UI that were bugging me however. Nowadays I'm pretty happy with Fork (available for Windows & macOS).

What was bugging you about the UI?

Re: Sublime Merge

#14

Post by fastball »

mandalorianer wrote: post #3

When Sublime Merge was initially released I liked it a lot. Mostly because of it's snappy speed (like Sublime Text). But since a year or so I'm using lazygit ( https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit ), which at least for me is the best git tool ever.

What do you like better about lazygit than Sublime Merge?

Re: Sublime Merge

#15

Post by fastball »

tstrimple wrote: post #11

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and lean…

What is a reasonable timescale? They last released an update for Sublime Merge in April. What features are you missing that they haven't added? What bugs are present that need to be fixed?

Re: Sublime Merge

#16

Post by have_faith »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #2

I have been using Sublime Merge for a while now, and I find it very useful. I am a visual and spatial type, so I find the the way the information is organised there invaluable. I know I lose points for not being an ultimate shell dweller, but the experience just does not compare. The only downside is that sometimes you cannot be sure which commands it will execute for a given functionality, and to do more specific th…

Same. I’ve been using it a while and I enjoy it a lot. I have to admit that I haven’t purchased it yet because $100 is hard to justify with so many perfectly good free alternatives, but if it was cheaper I definitely would.

Re: Sublime Merge

#17

Post by norman784 »

tstrimple wrote: post #11

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and lean…

> Cloud? Why? You can literally do anything on a VPS with Postgres!

In my case I don't want to maintain a server, but a web service, hence I'd prefer cloud most of the time.

> AI? Not on my watch! I can't imagine a tool that does more than VIM two decades ago!

There are a few instances where it's useful, but if you abuse the use of AI (copilot and co), then you will most likely not understand the code the same way if you were the one that wrote it, even if it is a 1:1 match.

> Javascript?! What a shit language.

Indeed Javascript is bad language, but it's hard to avoid if you work on the frontend, WASM is not yet there to be an alternative for most use cases.

> Everything should be written in Java or C++.

I would say at this point in time you will most likely to get away with Go (instead of Java) or Rust (instead of C++).

Re: Sublime Merge

#19

Post by SassyBird »

tstrimple wrote: post #11

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and lean…

Following fashion has nothing to do with hacking.

Re: Sublime Merge

#20

Post by niux »

solarkraft wrote: post #5

I liked Sublime Merge when I used it a few years ago, mainly because it's available on Linux. There were some things about the UI that were bugging me however. Nowadays I'm pretty happy with Fork (available for Windows & macOS).

Sorry, but it sounds like you're shilling for Fork.
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