I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3

I love Sublime Text 2. I love its speed, I love its extensibility, I love how it’s available not only for OS X, but also Windows and Linux.

But I hate the stunt its developer pulled with Sublime Text 3.

This isn’t about money. I’m more than happy to pay good money for good tools. For something as important as my code editor, I’d even pay a yearly subscription fee if it means the developer can keep churning out updates.

I can totally live with an unfinished and slightly buggy piece of software being labelled as “final” and released as Sublime Text 2.0, but going off the grid for almost half a year and then completely abandoning that version branch, putting all efforts into 3.0 – a paid update – instead, is simply a dick move.

Some people will say that the developer doesn’t owe us anything. In this case, I disagree; I bought a piece of software that I expected to at least receive bug fixes, maybe even some minor improvements here and there, and it is now becoming clear that this isn’t going to happen.

To make matters worse, the beta version of 3.0 (currently available to 2.0 license owners) is a separate product that breaks compatibility with most of the plugins out there. You can install it, but you won’t use it, since ST2 has all your stuff.

Seriously – I don’t care about “2.0” or “3.0”. Just give us incremental updates and charge a yearly fee. Everybody wins.

(Dear “just use vim lol” trolls – and I know you’re reading this: I’ll switch to vim the very second I truly believe it will make me more productive. Promise!)