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>Are these changes really worth the "3.0" tag?

Absolutely.

>Goto to symbol is great, but all other bullet points taste like what I expected 2 to have once it left beta (basically, speed and not letting plugins crash my session).

I bought ST2 without expecting all these features. Taking the effort to add out-of-process plugins? That's more that the TextMate guy has done in all 6 years of dabbling with 2.

On top of that, it has other nice stuff I want. It might be OK calling it 2.5, but it's not a scam by any imaginable stretch of the word.

>Isn't this a clever way to make users buy into a paid upgrade for a stable version of an editor they already bought?

No. Did you find ST2 any less stable than any other editor out there? I use it for a year for working on 3-4 different languages and it never has crashed on me.

So, I appreciate the cynicism but it's misguided here.




^ this reply can be summarized as "turning on the fan to spread shit on everyone else".

This is a discussion about sublime, not other editors. And if other editors have shortcomings, it's not an excuse.

I also think that after paying for software the least you can expect is relatively bug-free code or quick updates to fix them, and a reduced number of crashes. That is, for software that has left beta to be labelled stable.


>^ this reply can be summarized as "turning on the fan to spread shit on everyone else".

Yes, but only if by "spreading shit on everyone else" you mean:

1) a comparison between the speed of development/releases of ST (which was the very topic of this comment thread) and that of TextMate.

2) a generic statement that ST2 was as stable as any other competing browser.

So, really NO, not at all. Oversensitive much? As if "the other editors" (of which I only mention _one_) are gonna feel hurt?

>This is a discussion about sublime, not other editors.

No discussion about anything can be made without relating to other things, especially of it's own category.

If someone tells you "is this editor worth it" the only possible answer will take into account the other editors and what they offer.


"API: Projects are exposed to the API"

this, and the rest of API-specific features will add 0.5 to make it completely "worth" the 3.0 tag.




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