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How about instead of writing just an opensource sublime text clone. We sit down as a community and discuss how we can create an even better editor than Sublime
by mortdeus 13y ago
How about instead of writing just an opensource sublime text clone. We sit down as a community and discuss how we can create an even better editor than Sublime Text.
There are some awesome text editors out there that have features I wish were in sublime text but sadly arent.
For example, Rob Pike's acme editor has some really awesome ideas like mouse chording, (contextual right click. middle click command executions, etc), 9p vfs interfaces that allow plugins to be written in any language.
And then there are little experimental editor ideas like Conception with great ideas that are worth checking into.
https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception
Sublime Text gets alot of things right, but during my experience using it and using acme. I often find myself wishing there was a way to take both editors and mash them together because using one often makes me miss using the other.
- mortdeus 13y agoOh and in case people want to see a demo of Acme. Here is Russ Cox giving a tour of acme. http://research.swtch.com/acme http://research.swtch.com/acme
- pessimizer 13y agoMost people think that they have already found an even better editor than Sublime Text. Sublime Text is used by a small minority of programmers.
- ascendantlogic 13y agoDo you have numbers to back that up? Or is this purely anecdotal?
- rplnt 13y agoI think it's more of an assumption than anecdotal. Sublimetext is a very expensive piece of software. You have the forever trial thing, but people don't usually want to get hooked up. And now piece of anecdotal - I don't know a single person around me that uses it.
- SmileyKeith 13y agoCan't say I actually use Sublime anymore, although I do know a few people who do, but when put in the perspective of a piece of software you use all day every day it doesn't seem that expensive. Even when many other editors are free.
- bnejad 13y agoHow about you go ahead and do that and let this guy write whatever code he wants. Simple enough.
- rplnt 13y agoSublime Text has a huge plugin base. Making it compatible you save thousands of men-hours on reimplementing stuff.