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>I'm a Sublime Text 2 owner, but the continued lack of a Linux/ARM build nor any announced plans for the same mean I won't be upgrading. Damn! There goes the w
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>I'm a Sublime Text 2 owner, but the continued lack of a Linux/ARM build nor any announced plans for the same mean I won't be upgrading.
Damn! There goes the whole of the Linux/ARM community!
- richo 14y agoWow that's a helpful response :/ ARM devices are happening.. without having seen your codebase I can't speak for how hard it'd be to build for a new target, but given that you're targeting win32 and posixy systems already it seems achievable. Wouldn't you much rather be the badass that works everywhere than snrk at a growing niche?
- illumen 14y agoLinux/ARM is bigger than iphone, apple, and dell combined. Android. It's sitting on a desk near you.
- Erwin 14y agoSounds like a perfect business opportunity. Offer the author, say $50,000/year in exchange for being allowed to port and support the editor on Linux/ARM and take all the licensing profits from there. You only need to sell a few $79 licenses compared to the number of Android devices there. A complex resource-hungry IDE is just what the Android platform has been missing. While you're at it, add Common Lisp support. That is literally the #1 request on the announcement.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>Linux/ARM is bigger than iphone, apple, and dell combined.Android. It's sitting on a desk near you. Most Android devices are sold free with contract or with low tier phones to people who don't care much about smartphones. As for Android tablets, they don't sell that well, period. That's the huge majority of Android users. A minor one is geeks like us, open source fans, etc, that prefer it to iOS. (And that still leaves tons of geeks preferring iOS). If you need any proof that the majority of Android users are not that technical, just check these "relative number of active devices": http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html Half a year later, only 10 percent have the latest release. And over 50% are two releases behind. Neither the majority not the minority of Android users are much likely to buy a programmers' editor for their Android phone or tablet.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoYou didn't even make it one whole sentence with a correct statement. You stink of an OSS troll in this thread. There have been plenty of interest in Sublime Text 2 builds for Android, I've seen people ask about it for both the Exynos Chromebook and the jailbroken Surface RT. Amazingly, I can use ALL of my desktop software (except VirtualBox) on Linux/ARM and it's just like using an Intel machine. The only thing missing are proprietary apps like ST that can't have an ARM build generate for it automatically.
- coob 14y agoLinux/ARM is not an end user software platform.
- qu4z-2 14y agoST is a programmer's editor.
- lsllc 14y agoNope, I'll be upgrading! ST2 is great (even without ARM support). But I'll second the request for an ARM/Linux version. I just got my ARM Chromebook set up with Chrubuntu and I'm already missing ST2 (using Emacs for now ...).