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the next big thing for devs. I love sublime and will, but can't figure why is it taking them so long, to launch it on mac appstore.

by frade33 13y ago

lelandriordan 13y ago
Apple's 30% cut
- shakeel_mohamed 13y ago
  Yeah, there's really no incentive for them do it aside from accepting non-Paypal customers.
  - djjaxe 13y ago
    paypal accepts transactions without accounts just cards...
    - shakeel_mohamed 13y ago
      Not if it's the same card used on a limited PayPal account :)
- caiob 13y ago
  Not to mention the amount of features they'd have to remove in order to comply with Apple's standards.
  - Cthulhu_ 13y ago
    Would its plugin / scripting library even be allowed? I don't know the specifics of the OSX app store rules.
    - chipotle_coyote 13y ago
      Based on BBEdit, which does have a version in the App Store, the plugins and scripting would be just fine -- but the CLI integration wouldn't be. (Although you could probably download it separately.) I don't really see what the advantage of putting ST in the App Store would be, though, for either its developer or any of the users. I like the App Store well enough for certain things, but for developer tools and many utilities the sandboxing tends to be an annoyance at best. (Also, I don't like that the App Store makes upgrade pricing completely impossible, but that's a whole different rant.)
schrijver 13y ago
Curious, what is the added value for you if it is on the App Store?
jbeja 13y ago
Because?
drdaeman 13y ago
Maybe. For node.js devs. And HTML/Markdown/non-programming coders. Not sure about the others. A good programming editor must treat code constructs as first-class citizens and (at least partially) operate on AST level, not go with typical "hey, we have a bunch of text that we colorize and bracket-match/fold/dissect with some mostly-working regexp mess¹" approach. The latter is just a notepad, not a decent development environment. As I suspect this editor isn't much different from notepad/textmate/sublime in this regards and it doesn't really understand a thing about the code I'm working on (just pretends it does), it seems quite useless to me. ___ ¹) Like this: https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/lib/.ctags https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/lib/.ctags

the next big thing for devs. I love sublime and will, but can't figure why is it taking them so long, to launch it on mac appstore.

by frade33 13y ago

the next big thing for devs. I love sublime and will, but can't figure why is it taking them so long, to launch it on mac appstore.

lelandriordan 13y ago

Apple's 30% cut

shakeel_mohamed 13y ago
Yeah, there's really no incentive for them do it aside from accepting non-Paypal customers.
- djjaxe 13y ago
  paypal accepts transactions without accounts just cards...
  - shakeel_mohamed 13y ago
    Not if it's the same card used on a limited PayPal account :)
caiob 13y ago
Not to mention the amount of features they'd have to remove in order to comply with Apple's standards.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  Would its plugin / scripting library even be allowed? I don't know the specifics of the OSX app store rules.
  - chipotle_coyote 13y ago
    Based on BBEdit, which does have a version in the App Store, the plugins and scripting would be just fine -- but the CLI integration wouldn't be. (Although you could probably download it separately.) I don't really see what the advantage of putting ST in the App Store would be, though, for either its developer or any of the users. I like the App Store well enough for certain things, but for developer tools and many utilities the sandboxing tends to be an annoyance at best. (Also, I don't like that the App Store makes upgrade pricing completely impossible, but that's a whole different rant.)

schrijver 13y ago

Curious, what is the added value for you if it is on the App Store?

jbeja 13y ago

Because?

drdaeman 13y ago

Maybe. For node.js devs. And HTML/Markdown/non-programming coders. Not sure about the others. A good programming editor must treat code constructs as first-class citizens and (at least partially) operate on AST level, not go with typical "hey, we have a bunch of text that we colorize and bracket-match/fold/dissect with some mostly-working regexp mess¹" approach. The latter is just a notepad, not a decent development environment. As I suspect this editor isn't much different from notepad/textmate/sublime in this regards and it doesn't really understand a thing about the code I'm working on (just pretends it does), it seems quite useless to me. ___ ¹) Like this: https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/lib/.ctags https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/lib/.ctags