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What's going on?

#1

Background: I’m about to start a large plugin project related to coffeescript linting, and I have to decide if I want to continue investing time in Sublime or start doing something for another editor that we shall not name for the sake of peace.

Can anyone offer some idea as to what the hell is going on? jps said 2015 wasn’t going to be quiet, but most of the bugs that have been a pain for me lately is still not fixed. Instead there’s been work on stuff (like build systems) that’s totally irrelevant to most Sublime users. Try using Sublime on a recent Linux distro and start crying.

Anyway, some sign that development has not stopped is **long ** overdue. My inquiries to Sublime HQ have been unsuccessful.

mike

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#2

News from Sublime HQ is that Jon is still working on Sublime. It wasn’t too long ago that the ST3 Dev builds received an update that added a new syntax language and open sourced the default packages.

A lot of people use Sublime as their daily drivers. Writing a plugin for Sublime is not a signed death certificate. However, you do as you see fit :smile:

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#3

So you have heard this directly from HQ? If so, then good, although I find your claim dubious given my repeated attempts at reaching them.

The dev builds this year (few and far between and not very interesting) was not fixing the bugs people struggle with, and the open sourced packages are getting stale since pull requests are moot as nobody looks at them.

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#4

As much as I hate to say it, Sublime Text is dead. It’s obvious it isn’t important to Jon.
Even if he does manage to finish ST3 in this decade (oddly he mentioned he was working on ST4 last year which really made me LOL) it will never be reliable in that you can depend on it being maintained and up to date.

There are lots of good options coming out that are maturing and aggressively maintained. (Atom, VS Code, and more).

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#5

[quote=“Saxi”]As much as I hate to say it, Sublime Text is dead. It’s obvious it isn’t important to Jon.
Even if he does manage to finish ST3 in this decade (oddly he mentioned he was working on ST4 last year which really made me LOL) it will never be reliable in that you can depend on it being maintained and up to date.
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Two times I had tried with Emacs and in both occasions I experienced wrist pain and was returning to Vim.

However, not being full-time coder, I find it requires lot of time to put together all the plugins for my needs and learning curve is steep, so I had best intention to move & buy ST3, but seeing the lack of any communication from the side of SublimeHQ (nobody can tell me that someone is so busy not being able to send one post per month explaining what’s going on), I simply do not want to invest my time neither in learning nor buying license for such product, although at any time I prefer desktop apps.

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There are lots of good options coming out that are maturing and aggressively maintained. (Atom, VS Code, and more).[/quote]

Indeed…I’m switching to the one developed with web technology.

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