Hello,
As everyone has noticed, there haven’t been any beta releases for a while, and I’ve been anything but responsive on the forum and email. I’ve been in somewhat of a malaise with respect to progress on Sublime.
The work that really needs to get done on Sublime Text is an overhaul of the UI, for a few main reasons:
- Project support
- Better tab dragging (i.e., between windows, and dragging out of the window to create a new one)
- Remove the dependency on hardware rendering, enabling Sublime to run in situations where it’s not available, such as virtual machines.
All these indicate that it’s time for a new shell over the core of Sublime. Although I’ve made some exploratory steps in doing this, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done before it’s possible to get a release out the door.
Due in no small part to this, I’ve been putting very sporadic hours into Sublime Text. At this stage, I’m not sure what it’s future is. The two paths are to either get over the hump, and get it done with the new UI, or to officially stop development work, and release the code as is as open source.
Jon