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[quote=“sublimator”]>>> left Google in 2007 to work on Sublime full time.
That only lasted a few months, for a long time in ST’s history, Jon was burning the candle at both ends, running a full time job while pushing forward.
There were times when it seemed completely infeasible as a business, but he persevered.[/quote]
We were told there were two new employees (Hong and Kari) though.
The lack of community dialog is baffling. 2 years of silence on userecho, four months since the last blog post and tweet, not a single response to the community managed issues list, not even acknowledging its existence and months between dev releases with few changes to show for it.
Should people really have to wonder whether the development is ongoing or not?
During a period of less than one month I managed to single-handedly duplicate enough of ST3’s backend functionality on my spare time to be able to run and pass the full test suite of the ST3 plugin Vintageous. An effort which was born out of the lack of communication in the first place.
I seriously hope you are working on something completely different than Sublime Text, because how 3 people can accomplish so little is just beyond me.[/quote]
I think it is the combination of the lack of respect for his customers and the lack of priority of the project.
I suspect he works on something else he finds more interesting than ST and this is just a side project.
It’s a shame, I really love Sublime, and would love to see him sell it off to someone who gives a shit.