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How is the TextMate 2 Alpha doing? Any news on development?

It's not too shabby. It's rough around the edges still, and development is fairly slow. It crashes every few hours, but thankfully it recovers really well -- when you re-open it, all your buffers, saved or not, are there.

I've got a fairly large investment in TextMate bundles right now (lots of custom stuff that makes life super easy for me), so I've been sticking around through the nasty alpha phase.

Overall? It's alpha quality. Just what it says on the tin. But it's not so bad that you can't use it for daily use.

Same here. I didn't have nightly builds checked so I'm only just now getting the latest version, but it's been working fairly well. The bugs aren't enough to prevent me from using it for most things but there are times where it's annoying (large selections were an issue here) and I'll do it in TM1. We'll see how build 9090 does right now...

Not too many updates on the blog, but the mailing list archive can be found here: http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/ Not strictly development updates, but Allan is responding to things there (subjects are marked with [TM2]). If there's a better development stream posted somewhere else I'd like to see as well, though the updates have been pretty steady.

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