4 ms·
There is one other reason that I knew would always keep me in the Vim and Emacs world. At first I couldn't figure out what it was that bothered me about Sublime
by naner 15y ago
There is one other reason that I knew would always keep me in the Vim and Emacs world. At first I couldn't figure out what it was that bothered me about SublimeText 2. Vim and Emacs is open source! I don't see this point mentioned in arguments for or against but this is important to me.
I agree, especially after witnessing TextMate go stale and TextMate2 start to follow the Duke Nukem Forever release schedule. When I see a project like IntelliJ, I'm confident they will be around awhile. Looking at TextMate and SublimeText... I'm a little hesitant. The development muscle doesn't appear very robust. If a lead developer (or the only developer) gets hit by a bus is the project going to disappear?
- batista 15y agoBeing open source doesn't change that. Lots of open source project have gone stale or abandoned after one or more key developers lost interest. Unless people are going to step up and take the lead, being open source means nothing. If you want some assurance in this area it should be: 1) project is open source AND 2) project has a HUGE community AND 3) there are > 2-3 key developers (I added (2) because even hugely successful open source projects where abandoned and left in the cold when most members of the core team decided to try something different. Like, how, D (the language) was abandoned for D2 (the second, different implementation).