The thing that frustrates me about Sublime’s position is this (from that link):
> With most packages being no longer maintained there's little chance to get that file into existing repos.
So you can’t break backwards compatibility because “most packages” aren’t maintained. But that means those packages are no longer receiving bug fixes.
As a new Sublime Text user (within the last year), the package situation is definitely frustrating. There seems to be a lot of pride within the Sublime staff and core volunteer group, some of which is deserved, Sublime is an amazing editor. But at some point they’re going to have to admit that the current set of packages isn’t perfect and deprecate a bunch of them.
> With most packages being no longer maintained there's little chance to get that file into existing repos.
So you can’t break backwards compatibility because “most packages” aren’t maintained. But that means those packages are no longer receiving bug fixes.
As a new Sublime Text user (within the last year), the package situation is definitely frustrating. There seems to be a lot of pride within the Sublime staff and core volunteer group, some of which is deserved, Sublime is an amazing editor. But at some point they’re going to have to admit that the current set of packages isn’t perfect and deprecate a bunch of them.