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Comment by mumphster | Hacker News Reader

Sublime isn't open source and free.

For me, ST is my primary work tool. What I paid for it is completely insignificant compared to what I earn.

Speaking as someone who used Textpad from 1995 until when I discovered SublimeText last year, I love the functionality and keyboard shortcuts that have been built into it. For example, the developer appears to have lifted CTRL+F2 / F2 for bookmarks directly from Textpad, and I'm very happy they did.

I for one am happy for the developer to move at his own pace. It is very solid for my purposes, now using the Ubuntu version having switched from Windows.

It's pretty much free, if you don't mind the nag dialogs. And it's well worth the money - finally, who cares if it's open source? You can build anything you need on top of it. Maybe it doesn't satisfy some lofty "open-source" philosophy, but for practical purposes, who cares?

Learning an editor is an investment in a developers time. Software has to be updated and maintained to work on newer operating systems. With popular open source editors, you're pretty much guaranteed that the software will continue to evolve. Can't say the same about proprietary editors. I think a lot of developers could use an open source editor for their entire career, something highly unlikely to happen if they were using a proprietary one.

People who use ARM or other architectures that he's too lazy to make a build for

Lazy? That is unwarranted.

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