From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-03-13T08:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

On Thursday 11 March 2010 06:50:07 am Diego Virasoro wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, I acknowledged this, and it's why I care much more about people using IE 
than people using TextMate.

> Yes, it may cost some retraining time to move to another text
> editor but so what:

So, that's a nuisance and a cost, and depending on how much you find yourself 
relying on a given tool, it may start to be significant.

> Do you make your own car on the off chance that the car makers will
> make a car you won't like?

Bad analogy -- I don't have to "make my own car," there's things like RedCar, 
Diakonos, and others.

But there isn't really a lot of choice in cars. If I want a decent car at an 
affordable price, I pretty much want something manufactured, probably 
something used. It's entirely impractical to build it myself.

If you want a better car analogy for this sort of thing, I recommend Neal 
Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line":

> 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
>