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Comment by bproctor | Hacker News Reader

It's kind of sad that this project has become so dead that an update to a dev build is news worthy.

Not sure I subscribe to the idea that ST is "dead". The base editor is stable enough for day to day use ("dev" build be damned) and all the extra functionality (i.e. new features) is provided by plugins anyways.

ST could never see another update and would remain a competitive editor for daily use due to its plugin ecosystem.

until something else comes along, as with Textmate

dev build is that bad ?

yes

No, it's rock solid. Except if you run Linux it seems.

I wouldn't consider ST3 to be stable or usable under Linux since it just wrecks file permissions.

Neither do the Sublime Text developers; even the main release of Sublime Text 3 is listed as beta, and the download link on the front page of their website is still Sublime Text 2.

But do they still update the stable version of ST2? From what I gather "beta" is his way of describing the fact that he's actively developing it

The last release of Sublime Text 2 was over a year ago. And the post I was responding to was claiming Sublime Text 3 was already stable.

My point is that the "released" version has been abandoned. He's not supporting previous versions at all, you pay for access to an actual beta build, but if you happened to buy the full product you're SOL

I'm using the 3059 build and it doesn't change permissions of pre-existing files. And this build is supposed to solve that for the dev builds (I have to check it).

No ST3 is not stable. I can choose between latest beta (3059) which often crash with 'plugin_host' so I have to restart, because none of the plugins works after that. Or I can choose 3062 which doesn't open sidebar tree sometimes, and have to restart multiple times... I think this update didn't fixed that, will see.

I use the latest betas (actually dev releases) for a year or so, and never had ANY crash ever.

I use several plugins: The Linter package + several linters, the GoSublime, JSON pretty printer, a couple of build setups for different languages, etc.

OS X of course, might be buggier in Linux. Then again I don't think Linux is a priority.

I use it on OS X also, but I have to restart every day multiple times.

Perhaps it's some plugin you use? I've never had to restart, or have it crash on me.

Is LimeText a viable alternative?

Not yet, the back-end is almost "ready" but the front-end still requires a lot of work.

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