I've been using Sublime for quite some time on Win7, and I'm in love.
I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side. BTW, I'm not trying to flame or argue, this is just IMHO.
I've recently been doing some work with mongrel2, lua and Tir, which means that I have to develop on Linux, but I've been very crabby about using text editors that I really dislike. So, I'm really glad to have a port of sublime that works on linux.
Thanks for all the hard work, and I'm really looking forward to the new changes. Keep up the great work!
I do programming in Lua as well lately and nothing beats vim for me.
How can you switch to an editor that doesn't have documentation for it's custom key binding API yet? I currently use my leader key as comma "," and have bindings to open an interpreter, save file and run in interpreter, execute block selected in visual mode in interpreter and leave interpreter open, execute selected block + os.clock() to benchmark a snippet, etc. http://www.lua.org/pil/1.4.html
>mongrel2, lua and Tir
Also, respect to Zed and MVC fans. However I've found it simpler to write a pure Lua coroutine\socket based stack on top of HTTP and TokyoCabinet than to use preexisting servers, DBMS, or frameworks. The advantage of LuaJIT is it allows you to develop highly refactorable multiprocess stack in one language and have it probably be faster than I/O that you won't need to use non-refactorable C black boxes or frameworks.
I studies graphics and animation years ago in the days of OS8 and OS9, and I believed all the hype about how much better Macs were than PC's. So, I was extremely excited when the school I was attending got a lab full of G3's and G4's.
Then, I started using them for hours on end and the beating that I received was through the horrors of using hockey puck mice, and mice without a right click. The trauma of the "click of death" on zip drives. Being exhausted and sleepless and helplessly furious after a render that was going to take 22 hours crashed after 21 hrs and 30 minutes. And, finally, the horror of realizing the that the amazing innovation of being able to "write my video files to DVD" was more or less useless because burning 5 minute video file on the g4's super drive took 2 hours.
After being bitterly disillusioned with apple and mac products those years, but feeling that there was something terribly terribly wrong with me because it was so obvious to everyone around me that "Macs are so much better for graphics".
So, I quietly saved up a dollar here and a dollar there until I finally had enough money to put together my first PC build and I installed Win2k on it, and never looked back.
After my first build, I felt so liberated by being able to upgrade my hardware when ever I felt like it, I never went back. My 20 hour renders at the computer lab took 1 hour on my new processor.
I've been doing my own builds, and swapping out parts in my PC's ever since. I've tried OSX repeatedly. I've built a couple of hackintosh's. But, every single time, the trauma and the horror, and the deep deep bitterness and resentment that I have harbored in my heart against Apple has never gone a way.
I loved Apple once. But after those 3 years of using exclusively Apple products, now I only have an Apple shaped scar burned deep in my soul.
I don't expect other people to agree with me. I know they think that I can't code worth a crap because I'm use Windows as my OS. The disdain and contempt that people have of my favorite OS hurts, but nothing will hurt me as much as Apple has. It's an emotional thing I have.
Haskell and Erlang seem to run on Windows just fine when I mess around with them. The Lua environment on Windows is quite a bit better than the environment on Ubuntu. Mongrel2 doesn't, so I'll settle for running on Ubuntu for the time being.
Python runs beautifully, and the installers work quite a bit better than IMHO than the package system on Ubuntu. iPython is the shell that I live on most of the time, and when I need to automate server stuff, I find that Powershell is actually a much better shell than bash for a lot of stuff that I need on a regular basis. Being able to pipe around full objects rather than plain text is quite nice. When I don't have powershell lying around and I have to settle for bach, I find that I quite miss it.
The search engine that I'm building in my spare time doesn't seem to have any problems running on a Windows server, either.
So, no, I really don't get why people have such a chip on their shoulders when it comes to programmers running Win7. All I can think of is that people have some sort of techno-religious myopia. But, then again, there's jerks in all walks of life. I suppose programmers aren't exempt from that.
I keep trying to use Linux as my development platform, and I won't use a Mac (I got beaten with a mac as a young man. It's an emotional reponse), but for some reason I really dislike every nix text editor I've ever tried (emacs, vi, vim, gedit, kate, etc...) and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side. BTW, I'm not trying to flame or argue, this is just IMHO.
I've recently been doing some work with mongrel2, lua and Tir, which means that I have to develop on Linux, but I've been very crabby about using text editors that I really dislike. So, I'm really glad to have a port of sublime that works on linux.
Thanks for all the hard work, and I'm really looking forward to the new changes. Keep up the great work!