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You're right, and this opinion is technology-agnostic. Textmate vs Sublime would be a good example, in that Textmate languished while Sublime flourished. Now Sublime has an uncertain present/future, Atom [1] and projects such as Lime [2] have appeared. This still doesn't negate the fact that the original Textmate is a perfectly serviceable editor, and neither Sublime nor Atom truly offer a new, compelling day-to-day feature which would make a developer want to switch. I'm not innocent of this - I moved from Textmate to Sublime in the hope of exciting new features, and because many people in the community did the same, I have a healthy ecosystem available to me. The point still remains that there is very little wrong with Textmate, in the same way that WPF may still be completely viable. The new cool is the new cool. People go where the wo

Wow, time sure does fly. I was discussing Guile and Emacs 5 years ago on StackOverFlow. The 10 year old article that I referenced is no longer there. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663627/guile-and-emacs That's 15 years of talking. My personal feeling is that sometimes it's just better to abandon projects that stagnate. There's an open source Go version of Sublime, for example. It would probably be easier to maintain. https://github.com/limetext/lime

Great editor. Really poor customer interactions. As Mattwritescode mentions - there was a forum post in July - which mentions an August update but nothing yet. Remember when there were almost daily updates? There is Lime - which is an open source Sublime 'clone' https://github.com/limetext/lime

From (https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals) it is largely aiming to be a drop in replacement : - Compatible with Textmate color schemes (which is what ST is using) - Compatible with Textmate syntax definitions (which again is what ST is using) - Compatible with Textmate snippets - Compatible with Sublime Text’s python plugin API. I’ll probably never implement this 100%, only the api bits I need for the plugins I use. - Compatible with Sublime Text’s keybindings and settings (think most of it is working) - Compatible with Sublime Text snippets - Sublime Text’s Goto anything panel

If you're on OSX, there's Lime Text, which is Open Source http://limetext.org . Linux cross compile is apparently working and a Windows version is in the works as well. https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals

I'm willing to bet anything that just like Sublime was FOSS cloned to Lime (https://github.com/limetext/lime), this as well will be cloned as FOSS, if it is any good, that is. Subatom seems like a great project title :)

"Hm, maybe better to write an open-source version of Sublime Text?" You mean, like Lime? https://github.com/limetext/lime