So I'm a bit late to the TextMate wonderfulness.. I've been using the 30-day trial version for the last week, and got it pretty customized to my liking. Project+, MissingDrawer, SVNMate, bundles, a few custom Templates for my C++ projects, etc. Loving it.
Today I went out and got the latest TextMate2 compile from about 2 days ago, I believe, and wow. That's a huge step backward IMO. No "Projects" that I can see, just look at a Directory (which doesn't work for me, my Directory Structure != Project structure). No support for Templates either, it seems, which I just recently figured out and _really_ love (great to just pull in a template of my base C++ class and "fillin the blanks"). Plus lots of things I customized don't see to be there anymore, or are buried in the new "tm_properties" file.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I was getting ready to buy TextMate1, but if this is what TextMate2 is going to look like maybe I should evaluate some other tools. Is TM1 still "alive"? Or are users urged to start using TM2? Am I just really missing something in TextMate2? I'm a C/C++ developer that also uses Arduino, CMake, Python, and other stuff, so things like CTags, project-specific environment variables, and true "Projects" are important to me.