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I don't really like Atom because of the webkit usage, but I strongly agree that using a closed source text editor is a terrible idea for a programmer... when that editor stops being maintained all the time investment learning all it's time saving tricks is lost.

Luckily I've been burned really early in my programming career by TextMate to know better: all my tools must be OSS and cross-platform.

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I don't understand this line of thinking.

For me a closed-source text editor such as Sublime Text makes me much more productive than it's open-source equivelent. The accumulated productivity gains far outweigh the timecost to learn a new tool, if Sublime Text disappeared (a couple of days at most?).

Well, in some time you will lose all your productivity when you have to switch. With a proprietary tool it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' (unless it's provided by a huge corporation, but then they try to lock you in their ecosystem).

OTOH I will be able to use vim (or a fork of it) 20-30 years from now and become more and more productive with it during the timeframe.

And I don't understand your line of thinking.

You should be using vim or emacs if the "accumulated productivity gains far outweigh the timecost to learn a new tool".

That is a great point. A year without a single beta build, and yet they have not explained to the consumers anything.

Just resumed, as if nothing has happened. That is a warning: you are at mercy of a small & private company, which does not seem to care much.

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