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I'd rather Jon ask for more money by ticking the version up and cranking out stuff than let the editor fester like TextMate 2.

That's what I view as honest, "I'm going to work on ST3 to convince you that its worth buying."

I haven't faced the same quality issues you speak of. TM2 has been rock solid for me. The only thing that never felt right was the theme (install Soda) and icon (Yuck, reminds me of Comic Sans)

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I'm not saying that he should keep pumping out new features for ST2 - it's totally fair to draw a line under it on the day it leaves beta and say "no more features". My complaint is that he took ST2 out of beta while people were still complaining about bugs, and has subsequently only issued one bugfix release.

As both a user and a developer, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect paid software to get support and bugfixes for a while - at least until the next version leaves beta. "Pay an extra 50% and maybe I'll fix the bugs" doesn't seem fair.

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