MAmanveru·Apr 2, 2015
In Show HN: AtomPair – Pair Programming with Slack and HipChat IntegrationFloobits
floobits-sublime
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Floobits / floobits-sublime
floobits-sublime
Floobits real-time collaboration plugin for Sublime Text 2 and 3
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What it is
Floobits real-time collaboration plugin for Sublime Text 2 and 3
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Observed mentions: 2013-06-28 12:12:42 UTC to 2015-04-02 13:54:20 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesI am a co-founder of floobits- https://floobits.com/about. We build support for real time collaboration into existing editors. I chiefly work on our editor integrations.
In terms of ease of development, the order goes like this:
IntelliJ ~ Emacs > Sublime ~ Ace >> Vim. In terms of community and support, the former ordering is also true.
POLLING:
Here we are trying to get the Window, from the Sublime API. Sometimes it doesn't exist (even when windows are open). There is no reliable API to tell us when new ones are made or when old ones go away. Presumably, post_window_command (http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime...) would fire off with a close command, but this function has never worked.
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
Here is another quick hack polling the editor to know when
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its safe to call the sublime API:
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
Here is a yet anther example needed for functionality and using callbacks to keep sublime from crashing:
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
Here is another example of pure craziness forced on us by ST3. We need to patch Views, but ignore our own patches (locally) so we don't form an echo loop. We also need to move the cursor so it doesn't jump. Sublime deals with these changes so poorly, we are forced to jump through hoops. In contrast- emacs/vim/intellij are basically fine just dumping on the entire buffer.
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
ST2 and ST3 ship their own python for linux I believe. Unfortunately, it has been stripped of useful modules like ssl. We have attempted to add support (see https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/tree/master/lib) but this is something Sublime should do, not us.
In Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done rightAre you using Sublime Text 3 on linux? ST3 on linux ships with a broken SSL module. We work around it for our own plugin, but I don't think Package Control does.
If you're curious how the work-around code works, see https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
The shared objects that code tries to load are all in https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/tree/master/lib
In Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done rightTrying to install in sublime I see:
Package Control: Error downloading package. URL error unknown url type: https downloading http://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/archive/0.17.5.z....
In Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done rightI use Sublime Text every day. I love it. I paid for it. I even develop plugins for it.[1] But I don't recommend it to peers. Why? Because Sublime Text has a low bus factor.[2]
6 years ago, I bought TextMate. Like Sublime Text, I enjoyed using it. Sadly, TextMate became abandonware. The sole developer suffered burnout. Bugs were never fixed. Promised features never showed up. Users wanted to fix these issues themselves. They begged the developer to release the source code, but it never happened. TM 2.0 was open-sourced, but TM 1.5 remains proprietary.
Developers marry their editors. They spend years learning every aspect of them. They customize their configuration. They install and develop plugins and extensions. If an editor becomes abandonware, the users of that editor have wasted an immense amount of time. All of their knowledge and wor
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k surrounding their editor becomes useless. They're forced to start over with something else.
All that said, I would recommend Sublime Text to others if the developer made an anti-abandonware pledge. The pledge would be to release the source code if no new version had been released in more than a year. I realize he has to make a living. Heck, I don't mind if he gets filthy rich from selling Sublime Text. I'm simply worried that despite his good intentions, he'll end up hurting his users in the long run. With an anti-abandonware pledge, users would be able to avoid the fate of TextMate users.
1. https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor