Neither Emacs nor Vim had to ship within a year and have had the luxury of development spanning decades. Lighttable has to ship in 2013 to meet promises made. E

Neither Emacs nor Vim had to ship within a year and have had the luxury of development spanning decades. Lighttable has to ship in 2013 to meet promises made. Every penny of that $300k is going to be going toward making that time table feasible. Have you completely forgotten this?