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"Sublime Text is better compared to Notepad++, Notepad 2, Gedit, SciTE, Emacs, and Vim, which are all open source software and extremely popular." Fair enough.
by technojunkie 13y ago
"Sublime Text is better compared to Notepad++, Notepad 2, Gedit, SciTE, Emacs, and Vim, which are all open source software and extremely popular."
Fair enough. I use ST2 like Coda/Espresso/Brackets for my own front-end development b/c of the app's agility and abundance of useful plugins for the front-end.
Keeping Atom partially closed source, again pointing to historical marketability, could give it more credence among developers of both ends. There's a reason closed source, proprietary editors are so massively popular vs. open source editors which often can't seem to get meaningful market share (whether Enterprise or Sole Proprietor/Freelancer).
That said, I really wish an open source editor, on the front-end specifically, like Brackets or even Notepad++ would become something I want to use more than ST2, Coda, etc. but there's always something missing.
Atom has potential as a partially open source editor but it remains to be seen. I'll need to be drooling in order to truly make a switch.
- rpdillon 13y ago> There's a reason closed source, proprietary editors are so massively popular vs. open source editors which often can't seem to get meaningful market share I'd be very interested to see data that indicates that closed-source text editors have more market share than their open-source counterparts.
- technojunkie 13y agoI base this on my own personal experience and understanding from a front-end perspective. Maybe back-end devs are different? I'm quite positive on the other end of development, mainly Microsoft devs, they're almost always using proprietary software like Visual Studio. Sadly, Microsoft dominates the Enterprise and these environments are nearly half the job openings I come across/hear about.