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Seems like a strage thing to invest Resources into. Minority computing, minority hardware, with a minority of programmers, on a text editor that doesn't need in

Seems like a strage thing to invest Resources into. Minority computing, minority hardware, with a minority of programmers, on a text editor that doesn't need intensive processing power. Maybe Apple paid for it so they could get a headline out of it? All of this seems incredibly unnecessary. Has sublime has ran out of things to work on? LateStageTextEditors

pmx 6y ago
Some time in the not so distant future all apple computers will run Apple Silicon. VSCode now has AS support. These text editors do a lot of indexing work in the background and can easily hit the CPU quite hard while doing that. It's not unheard of for the fans on my intel mac to spin up when I first open a new project in Sublime Text, anything that makes it more efficient is welcome in my eyes.
dralley 6y ago
I don't know that Apple users are a minority audience for Sublime Text. They may even be the largest user segment. Sure, ARM Macs may be a minority now, but it's hardly a wasted investment when the proportion is only going to increase.
tengbretson 6y ago
Possibly the biggest differentiator that Sublime Text has going for it is its lack of bloat/overhead compared to it's rivals, which use Electron or the JVM. If you hand-wave away the performance cost of Rosetta you are eliminating their biggest advantage.
- JediPig 6y ago
  I been using ST4 with LSP Package ( Community Package ), It is enough in my use case... to forever remove VSCode. I am looking at removing IntelliJ soon. I cant remember the last time I used CLion/IntelliJ... only times is using it for debugging hard issues... Maybe if I get better at LLDB/GDB I would never need clion.
tompazourek 6y ago
Might be minority of programmers, but I'd bet it's actually a significant percentage of the users (probably including the developers and the early adopters on their Discord). They might not be looking at the entire market for text editors, but more at keeping their current users happy. Just my speculation though...

pmx 6y ago

Some time in the not so distant future all apple computers will run Apple Silicon. VSCode now has AS support. These text editors do a lot of indexing work in the background and can easily hit the CPU quite hard while doing that. It's not unheard of for the fans on my intel mac to spin up when I first open a new project in Sublime Text, anything that makes it more efficient is welcome in my eyes.

dralley 6y ago

I don't know that Apple users are a minority audience for Sublime Text. They may even be the largest user segment. Sure, ARM Macs may be a minority now, but it's hardly a wasted investment when the proportion is only going to increase.

tengbretson 6y ago

Possibly the biggest differentiator that Sublime Text has going for it is its lack of bloat/overhead compared to it's rivals, which use Electron or the JVM. If you hand-wave away the performance cost of Rosetta you are eliminating their biggest advantage.

JediPig 6y ago
I been using ST4 with LSP Package ( Community Package ), It is enough in my use case... to forever remove VSCode. I am looking at removing IntelliJ soon. I cant remember the last time I used CLion/IntelliJ... only times is using it for debugging hard issues... Maybe if I get better at LLDB/GDB I would never need clion.

tompazourek 6y ago

Might be minority of programmers, but I'd bet it's actually a significant percentage of the users (probably including the developers and the early adopters on their Discord). They might not be looking at the entire market for text editors, but more at keeping their current users happy. Just my speculation though...