From: Diego Virasoro <diego.virasoro@...>
Date: 2010-03-13T23:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

> > 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.
>
Here I disagree. When I moved from another text editor to emacs, it
was a pain to learn it. That didn't stop me from moving to Texmate
now, and maybe to move to something else in the future. That's how
life goes.

It sounds like you are saying that I should pay a cost in my
productivity _right_now_ for the _possibility_ that Textmate's future
won't meet my needs and I will need to move again, paying some cost to
learn the new tool. And what if instead the future Textmate will still
be great? I will have lost productivity now and in the future, just
because I am being paranoic.

The only thing that is really important is that my data is portable,
which is why I care that Ruby is open: otherwise my code would be
useless.

> 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.

Are you saying that it takes no time to
a) read and understand the code that makes an open source texteditor
b) make the necessary changes to the code, and test it
c) and maintain the fork in case the developers don't agree with your
change?
Personally the cost of learning a new text editor pales in comparison!

Diego