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Especially since it seems to have been abandoned for a while now according to their website. The last beta build was 5 months ago, and the one before that over a year. (Obviously your editor doesn't need to be updated regularly, but it seems to be history repeating itself a la Textmate.)

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Well as you say an editor doesn't need updating that much. I used VIM for ages but had an hiatus in programming and when I came back I start using sublime. And now I switched back to textmate. Like textmate it's simple sufficient bundles. Looks pretty.

And with getting older. It's just an editor that makes me type text. Yeah yeah productivity but as I think more than I type it's not such an issue as long as I can do most of the basic editting ;)

Agree, I am impressed with how Textmate development has been going since it was opensourced, but my point really was that OS issues, bugs and incompatibilities can quickly add up over the course of a year or two, without any active development. The advantage of something like VIM or emacs is that they're first and foremost terminal based, and are shielded from a lot of these issues.

Lets also not forget that Sublime text isnt free, and i am sure paying users dont really want to be left in the dark for 6 months to a year.

I almost bought Sublime, but realized it was a bad idea just in time. I decided to give emacs another shot, this time jumping headfirst into Lisp too, and it's amazing. Really nice.

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