If you go to jps profile you can see āLast visitedā. I am checked it everyday last week and can see he is visiting forum everyday. Wy he is silent?
Project still alive?
Maybe heās the ultimate troll? Spend years writing awesome editor, stop working on it, watch people go nuts over lack of progress.
I also donāt understand Jonās silence. Like many others, I spend most of my day in SublimeText and am perfectly content with the current version.
Nevertheless, it wouldnāt kill Jon to give a very basic update every few weeks, something along the lines of:
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āIām making good progress on the new Ć¼ber-secret changes to SublimeText. Iāll 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.ā
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ā¦or āIām taking a bit of a break from actively working on SublimeText but I plan to start again in X days/weeks/monthsā¦ā
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ā¦or āMy dog ate the latest SublimeText code and I had to start over from scratchā¦ā
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 Jonās silence is the concerning part, not the lack of updates to the code.
The silence is worrying. I spent the last 6 months adapting my coding style to sublimeā¦
Itās a very good editor, but it canāt stop itās development. As an example, it is, in my opinion, missing an important feature for python editing: support for the local systemās python.
Almost every single tool/plugin available for code lookup/refactoring/etc uses sublimeās python to run the code in the textfile for analysis.
If youāre 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 itās 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 painā¦
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 I await more blog posts and development progress.
[quote=āiamntzā]
Same here.[/quote]
As inā¦ youāre afraid heās dead, along with the project?
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 outrageā¦
I heard Jon has multiple accounts on the forum and heās actually the one making all these postsā¦ to build suspense.
Hell, maybe Iām Jon and this is also just an elaborate form of misdirection before I release SUBLIME TEXT 3 and HALF LIFE 3!
Iāve 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 āstill working on itā.
That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.
[quote=ājpsā]Iāve 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 āstill working on itā.
That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.[/quote]
HE IS ALIVE!!!
Nice to know, I am eager to see what it is.
But what about bug fixes ?
Donāt understand your roadmapā¦ do you want fast forward to ST3 and forget ST2 support ?
Iāve 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.
I have some concern about adjudgement ST2 as completely stable and finished products. For example on Retina display Macās it still not working OK. It is my reason why Iām worried about vitality of project. ST2 still need active development and long silence from author can make wondering whats up.
Best wishes
ArekS
[quote=ājpsā]Iāve 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 āstill working on itā.
That being said, there will be something fun in the near future.[/quote]
Still the last nightly is older than the last dev buildā¦ 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 canāt believe that there is no need for a new stable release. I donāt 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 Iāve been bitten by textmate already so Iām very worried about st2.
Haunted? Thatās a bit hyperbolic. Posting well-tempered and legitimate criticisms about a product on that productās forum doesnāt seem unreasonable to me.
[quote=ābizooā]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 updatedā¦
the last Build 2219 was removed !!! not exactly what Iāve expectedā¦[/quote]
Thereās Build 2220 available at the Dev Builds page: sublimetext.com/dev
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.