| ▲ | jonas21 4 days ago |
| I think it's less that they sat on their laurels and more that a team of 2 had trouble keeping up with the dozens of well-paid folks working on VSCode. Which suggests that perhaps a shareware model did not work out so well for them. |
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| ▲ | shawabawa3 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| They literally stopped developing for about 5 years, it wasn't just about the team not keeping up |
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| ▲ | ben-schaaf 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think development actually stopped. ST3 was in a quiet public beta for a long time, but you can see builds of ST3 from 2013 to 2019: https://www.sublimetext.com/3. | |
| ▲ | Ygg2 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why would you stop developing for 5 years? | | |
| ▲ | jon-wood 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe they just wanted to do something else. Sometimes people just don't want to grind on endlessly for theoretically more money when what they've got already is enough for them. | |
| ▲ | WD-42 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Probably to write sublime merge |
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