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Allan is a computer scientist in the truest sense of the word. Intensely fascinated by doing core research and discovering new, deep insights. He has made enoug
by dhh 17y ago
Allan is a computer scientist in the truest sense of the word. Intensely fascinated by doing core research and discovering new, deep insights. He has made enough money off TextMate to allow him to pursue this passion without much concern for the commercial reality of releasing software regularly to keep the natives calm. Good for him!
There's no day job to attend to, just his quest for quality as declared by Allan himself. Despite being a good friend of Allan and helping him get TextMate v1.0 out the door based on almost exactly the opposite principles, I can't help but respect his dedication to perfection and his lifestyle design around it.
- colomon 17y agoI don't understand the impatient people here. TextMate 1.0 is pretty easily the best editor I have ever used for programming. The lousy multi-file search, my major complaint with it, is no longer an issue thanks to the terrific Ack bundle. I have a few minor complaints about how things work, but there is no guarantee 2.0 will be any better there. If a better 2.0 does come along, that's great, but why worry about it?
- dhh 17y agoI feel the same way. I have no urgency for 2.0. Even search isn't much of an issue if you just restrict your project scope a bit. For example, for Rails apps I just open everything but log and vendor and everything is snappity snap.