[quote=āAnomarehā]karisublime wrote:
version 4
Sighā¦[/quote]
Back in the day, before package control, and the countless plugins, and large community, there were just a small group of people excited about a nice new editor, and the possibilities. Iām glad Jon still has the energy, desire and focus to push the envelope, and leave the past behind. People have complained about the disruption / evolution ratio in past releases, but it really hasnāt been that bad. ST3 starts in an instant and json config is better than the days.
Having said that, ST3 still feels much the same in spirit to the windows only, xml configured, editor I fell in loves with years ago. So Iām personally excited, having followed ST development since 0.x, because this will be the release that has everything thatās been postponed in ST2 and ST3, and all (or a lot) thatās been up Jonās sleeve for under the hood changes.
Yeah, thereās a few bugs that annoy me, but no data losses or anything serious. Been wanting to know exactly what changed inside buffer modification events? ST4 is the release weāre likely to get it. New language grammar system? Ditto.
Iām optimistic this time this time weāll see real change. Vote ST4! haha
Kari, thank you so much for the update! Yes, the announcement should probably also be posted in the blog.
This is major news for me as my employer has allowed me to start using ST3 for development with COBOL, JCL, and ASM on z/OS. Iām still working on a package that helps with a large portion of the workflow, and makes ST3 SOO MUCH BETTER than a TSO & z/OS environment for development. Glad to know that I wonāt have to jump over to Atom in order to give my department a modern editor.
Also, big shoutout to bitlang for the COBOL Syntax package. I couldnāt believe my eyes when I saw it.
In my humble opinion, the first things that needs to be done is to :
Update the api and give a lot more access to the features of the software in order to be able to build better plugins.
Update the api docs, cuz the current doc suck and very outdated.
Where i leave we have a saying āOne hand canāt clapā. Having a single dev (that has other responsibilities in job and life) on such a great software that is used by a lot of users around the world isnāt really a good idea, especially while a lot of alternatives are rising.
Adding to that the lack of communication with the community will result in a lot of rumors. (i really hope that in the future, that we users of sublime will be updated more frequently)
She forgot to mention aliens. I truly believe this John guy is from another planetā¦ This software is good stuff, Kari keep him working and feed him coffee every two hours! No sleep! All the best, RomRP
To answer a few queries:
FORUM
Yes, we do intend to make the switch to another forum provider, as we agree this bad boy is a bit dated. Itās on the list of things to do once 3.0 is out.
SOCIAL MEDIA/COMMUNICATION WITH USERS
The power of posting to the blog and tweeting is not in my hands; itās done at Jonās discretion, and while I have brought my post to his attention, it has not yet made the cut. Again, increasing marketing and a stronger community management presence are future goals.
SUGGESTIONS
As always, the best place to make your voice heard for feature adds and suggestions to expand the product is the user echo: sublimetext.userecho.com
Contrary to popular belief, this does get read for ideas.
Any chance of a student license in the future? Iāve moved over to scotland to study and just canāt afford to pay 52 euro for this software at this time.