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Textmate 1 was in support for quite a while and I feel like it has ended up in a very good state. Textmate 1.0 was released in 2004, and the last release was in
by Argorak 13y ago
Textmate 1 was in support for quite a while and I feel like it has ended up in a very good state. Textmate 1.0 was released in 2004, and the last release was in 2012 - I call that a solid support for a 50$ product. I certainly don't see a "period of complacency" there.
Textmate 2.0s failure is a sad one (although I still often use the OS version), but hey: that happens, projects fail.
- FooBarWidget 13y agoI didn't notice any major changes in TextMate since I bought it in 2008. All kinds of issues that I had with it was never resolved over all those years: slowness when opening large files, the uselessness of the open-file-by-typing-a-part-of-the-filename dialog, weird scrolling behavior when I press Up or Down when the cursor is not in the visible area, lack of good key bindings, etc. Sublime's improvements over the course of half a year steamrolled over 4 years of TextMate development, from 2008-2012. I don't see how that isn't complacency on TextMate's part.
- mietek 13y agoWhy do you consider TextMate 2 failure? It's being actively developed as open-source by the original author: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commits/master https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commits/master
- sigzero 13y agoIt's lost the "great new editor" mind think. Too long between "I am developing the new one", long pause, "I am open sourcing it".
- Argorak 13y agoToo little, too late, thats why. I like it and still use it daily, but if it had come 3 years earlier or so, it would have been a serious competitor to Sublime.
- welly 13y agoBecause everyone who got fed up of waiting for a solid release of TM2 moved to Sublime Text. And it looks like the same is happening to Sublime Text, which is why I've moved to PHPStorm.