We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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Member since:2006-02-05
The author of textmate flat out said he is a mac developer, likes being a mac developer, and is making enough money with textmate being mac only to not want to have the pain of developing for and porting to other platforms.
He also said he gets emails all the time of people switching from other operating systems all the time for textmate, and he is totally ok with that since he supports apple getting money, as he is a mac guy.
In my mind, both of those are completely reasonable points of view, and it's not like I am pissed off at him or anything. It just kind of sucks for me, because there isn't any editors out there that even come close to textmate.
Member since:2005-11-10
It’s just a text editor. I use TextMate and I think it’s brilliant, but it’s not impossible to beat—just unlikely given the needless complexity of the Linux ecosystem that makes developing something highly polished difficult. OS X is a platform where software is very highly polished in general. I don’t know what makes it that way, but it just is.
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2005-11-10
The Linux platform should be so compelling that the author of TextMate would _want_ to port it to Linux.
It’s an API war, and Apple are winning.