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What ever happened to TextMate 2?
- hallmark 16y agoI suppose the referenced blog post by the TextMate author Allan Odgaard is quite old (2009), but boy it sure has eery similarities with the development of cloud sync for Things: A beloved product. Fans wondering whether to hold tight or jump ship for some less polished but actively improving alternative. Awkward blog posts in the interim. I do wish the best for both, because I am a fan of both products. I wonder if a cushion of money from creating a successful product causes passion burnout for some of these developers. Direct link to Allan's post: http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/ http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/
- spjwebster 16y agoAs a long-time TextMate user I hate to say it, but the TextMate 2 saga is a modern-day poster child for why the "throw it all out and start again, it'll be done when it's done" model of refactoring is rarely a good idea. Users want those "incremental features" that Allan mentioned in this post, and don't care too much what the underlying architecture looks like. It's hard to believe that it wouldn't have been possible to deliver those features whilst iteratively refactoring the underlying architecture.