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Generally, I advise against using Microsoft stack. But since your goal is to build a company/startup and you have experience with MS stack I think it's a good idea to use what you already know. That way you can have more time to focus on the product/business development matters. Learning a completely new technology stack while you are trying to build a business doesn't seem right to me.

I am not too familiar with the technical details regarding the text rendering in ST3, but I can clearly see the difference between ST3 and Vim/GVim. At least on the machines I use (Desktop Archlinux & MBP OSX). Apparently ST3 uses Skia2d[1] for rendering which is what Google Chrome uses as well. Even for the text. But again, it's not just about the text rendering. ST3 is designed for the modern GUI and Vim/Emacs are not. What I want to see is the raw power of Vim + nice modern UI rendering/feel. It can't be that hard.

[1] - http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev (search for Skia)

GVim is not that bad to be honest, but in my experience ST3 is still better. It's not just the font rendering. The whole UI experience in GVim is lacking compared to ST3. ST3 has been designed for the modern UI environment and Vim and Emacs haven't. That's the point.

I personally use Vim but I like Emacs as well. They are both great. But they are getting old and it shows. Compare them to the super nice text rendering of ST3. I understand one cannot use ST3 from the terminal but that's fine. I can continue to use vim in that case. But 99% of my time is spent in graphical environment and I want a modern editor with nice font rendering and all. But still, IMHO Vim and Emacs are better text editors than ST3. Why can't we have best of both worlds? Implement core vim functionality as a backend service and provide a modern frontend with nice rendering (by using Skia for example). Same goes for Emacs. It's time to move on but keep the best of Vim and Emacs.

Yeah, but sometimes "saving some bits" is really important. It's also really inconvenient to work with UUIDS, like in writing SQL queries etc. The solution these guys came up with obviously works for them.

Only until 5236?? We definitely need a better solution.

Interesting project, but I doubt it will gain any traction. It would be good to provide some kind of a runtime and a standard library.