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I'll pay for value. For instance, I've probably sunk $800 into my current editor over the years. It's been completely worth it, and I don't regret a single pen
by kabdib 12y ago
I'll pay for value.
For instance, I've probably sunk $800 into my current editor over the years. It's been completely worth it, and I don't regret a single penny.
Another tool (for visual diffing) was about $300, 15 years or so ago. Totally worth it; it's paid for itself many times over.
In both cases the open source alternatives were awkward and borderline broken. Sure, I could have saved a few bucks by using them, or even spent some time improving them, but it's just not worth my time. I have other things to do.
Agreed that Sublime Text looks like abandonware now. It's a fine editor (not great), and the price seems okay, but I'm guessing there will be a mass exodus when ST 3.0 turns out to be not much better than previous versions.
- rthomas6 12y agoWhat editor?
- duckmysick 12y agoProbably a JetBrains editor. One commercial license for IntelliJ IDEA is one buck shy of $500. If you include the cost of upgrades over the years, it's not that surprising.
- kabdib 12y agoEpsilon (it's an Emacs clone). Was about $300 new, and upgrades over the years were about $100 each. It hasn't been updated in quite some time, but it's a very capable editor, and many of the heavies I've worked with in the past decade or so have also been power-users of it. Epsilon is arguably more abandonware-like than Sublime Text, but it's also a much more mature product (with way better documentation). I'd love to have some new features (multi-window editing would be great, and multi-selections, and support for collapsing regions of text), but on the whole I'm happy with it.