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Project still alive?

#13

Maybe he’s the ultimate troll? Spend years writing awesome editor, stop working on it, watch people go nuts over lack of progress. :mrgreen:

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#14

I also don’t understand Jon’s silence. Like many others, I spend most of my day in SublimeText and am perfectly content with the current version.

Nevertheless, it wouldn’t kill Jon to give a very basic update every few weeks, something along the lines of:

  • “I’m making good progress on the new über-secret changes to SublimeText. I’ll should be able to give you more information in X days/weeks/months. Until then, please be patient - the new features will blow your mind.”

  • …or “I’m taking a bit of a break from actively working on SublimeText but I plan to start again in X days/weeks/months…”

  • …or “My dog ate the latest SublimeText code and I had to start over from scratch…”

He could even just re-post the same message every two weeks and people would be happy to know that something is going on. A bit of communication would go a long way in keeping the users and the community happy.

For me Jon’s silence is the concerning part, not the lack of updates to the code.

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#15

Same here.

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#16

The silence is worrying. I spent the last 6 months adapting my coding style to sublime…

It’s a very good editor, but it can’t stop it’s development. As an example, it is, in my opinion, missing an important feature for python editing: support for the local system’s python.

Almost every single tool/plugin available for code lookup/refactoring/etc uses sublime’s python to run the code in the textfile for analysis.
If you’re using Python 2.7, this is a problem. As an example, in my current project we used a ton of dictionary expressions, which fail badly in 2.6.

So, most Python tools for sublime are, ironically, useless for 2.7-based projects (or, I assume, 3.x)

I prefer sublime rather than one of the various eclipse-based environments due to it’s amazing speed as well as it being simply the best text editor I had the pleasure to use. But after I write the code, the whole editing/debugging/refactoring spiel is a pain…

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#17

I am on the fence here as well, if development has stopped, then I will not likely buy the editor. However, I am evaluating it and it is certainly the best I have ever used :smile: I await more blog posts and development progress.

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#18

[quote=“iamntz”]

Same here.[/quote]

As in… you’re afraid he’s dead, along with the project? :smiley:

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#19

He’s collecting evidence of stalking.

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#20

Aaaaanyway, so someone is claiming the following:

Google buys Sublime (not surprising given the fact a lot of googlers use Sublime), and ST3 will be announced as a (free) Google product within months.

This site should stop talking payments, or will have another WindowBuilder outrage…

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#21

I heard Jon has multiple accounts on the forum and he’s actually the one making all these posts… to build suspense.

Hell, maybe I’m Jon and this is also just an elaborate form of misdirection before I release SUBLIME TEXT 3 and HALF LIFE 3!

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#22

I’ve restored the dev and nightly pages now, thanks for the heads up. They got accidentally reverted to an older version yesterday when I moved the buy page to using SSL.

I have no intention of posting every week just to say ‘still working on it’.

That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.

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#23

[quote=“jps”]I’ve restored the dev and nightly pages now, thanks for the heads up. They got accidentally reverted to an older version yesterday when I moved the buy page to using SSL.

I have no intention of posting every week just to say ‘still working on it’.

That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.[/quote]

HE IS ALIVE!!!

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#24

Are we there yet?

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#25

Nice to know, I am eager to see what it is.

But what about bug fixes ?

Don’t understand your roadmap… do you want fast forward to ST3 and forget ST2 support ?
I’ve no problem if you want to release a ST3 with an upgrade fee, but I expect some support for ST2 for a while, at least until ST3 is production ready.

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#26

I have some concern about adjudgement ST2 as completely stable and finished products. For example on Retina display Mac’s it still not working OK. It is my reason why I’m worried about vitality of project. ST2 still need active development and long silence from author can make wondering whats up.

Best wishes
ArekS

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#27

[quote=“jps”]I’ve restored the dev and nightly pages now, thanks for the heads up. They got accidentally reverted to an older version yesterday when I moved the buy page to using SSL.

I have no intention of posting every week just to say ‘still working on it’.

That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.[/quote]

Still the last nightly is older than the last dev build… so no work has gone into sublime text 2, at least not visibly externally. No blog posts after the release of sublime text 2 either. Seen that the last dev build has better retina display support I can’t believe that there is no need for a new stable release. I don’t car much for $60 bucks but changing my default editor for something closed source I at least need a proof that there is work being done on it.

Sorry for being this bleak, but I’ve been bitten by textmate already so I’m very worried about st2.

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#28

wow, my solidarity goes to Jon who is haunted by his users.

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#29

Haunted? That’s a bit hyperbolic. Posting well-tempered and legitimate criticisms about a product on that product’s forum doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

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#30

[quote=“bizoo”]Slightly off topic:
I just take a look at the Nightly Builds page http://www.sublimetext.com/nightly to check if something new is available and the page was updated…
the last Build 2219 was removed !!! not exactly what I’ve expected…[/quote]

There’s Build 2220 available at the Dev Builds page: sublimetext.com/dev

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#31

Like Textmate, it is maintained by a single person who is not full time comitted to it.
Like Textmate, it will die soon or later, when this person has something better to do (since he seems to be a great developper, this will happen).
IMO, Jon is already having too little time to invest.
Still, ST is one of the best editors ans probably the only one you can entirely customize with plugins.

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#32

Jackzon/Arjan: please stop posting new topics about the same thing under different usernames.

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