From: Diego Virasoro <diego.virasoro@...>
Date: 2010-03-11T21:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

> I'm much more interested in it on a personal level. Switching text editors at
> this point might be, for most of us, far trickier than switching OSes, and
> could be almost as bad as switching keyboard layouts. (Dvorak, anyone?) By
> picking a proprietary technology, you're doing several things that I can't
> really see being worth the risk:

To be honest with you I find your arguments weak at best. At the end
of the day the data it spits out (the files you work on) are simple
text files. How you got there doesn't matter, and I don't see why it
should. Yes, it may cost some retraining time to move to another text
editor but so what: should I stop using it on the off chance that the
developer takes it in a direction I don't like? Personally I didn't
buy textmate for what will be added in 1 year, but for what it is now.
And just like I moved to Textmate even though I wasted a few hours
learning to be comfortable in it, so I will in the future if I have
strong objections.

Do you make your own car on the off chance that the car makers will
make a car you won't like? Or maybe create your own mobile phone
because you are worried that tomorrow Nokia et al. will produce phones
you don't like?

Everytime you move from one product to another you need to retrain
yourself. Those of us who bought Textmate did it for what it is, and
that will not change. And as any other complex product in life if the
future Textmate will not be good enough, we will not buy it and get
something else.

Diego