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I don't understand this line of thinking. For me a closed-source text editor such as Sublime Text makes me much more productive than it's open-source equivelen
by PlzSnow 12y ago
I don't understand this line of thinking.
For me a closed-source text editor such as Sublime Text makes me much more productive than it's open-source equivelent. The accumulated productivity gains far outweigh the timecost to learn a new tool, if Sublime Text disappeared (a couple of days at most?).
- pgz 12y agoWell, in some time you will lose all your productivity when you have to switch. With a proprietary tool it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' (unless it's provided by a huge corporation, but then they try to lock you in their ecosystem). OTOH I will be able to use vim (or a fork of it) 20-30 years from now and become more and more productive with it during the timeframe.
- asantos3 12y agoAnd I don't understand your line of thinking. You should be using vim or emacs if the "accumulated productivity gains far outweigh the timecost to learn a new tool".