On Mar 24, 2005, at 16:05, Gregg Thomason wrote:
[...] If it's replacing an existing app, it has to replicate workflow /exactly/.
ehm... I'm pretty sure that all TextMate users did use a text editor previous to october 2004, and I doubt it replicate the workflow from any of these editors /exactly/! :)
If that wasn't true, everyone would have switched to Macs by now if only to get away from viruses and spyware.
I don't follow that line of reasoning. So if OS X replicated the workflow of XP exactly, everybody would switch to OS X? People switch to OS X because it's _different_, and people stay with XP because they are conservative, don't know what they're missing, want the games, the hardware is cheaper, all their friends have it, etc.
Consider that TextMate didn't have a bloody preferences window when it debuted, because it "wasn't need" and "against the philosophy" (sorry forgot the exact verbiage). It has one now. See my point?
No, it wasn't the philosophy not to have a preferences window. David put in the blog that it was “a testament to it's simplicity”, although in reality it was just me thinking that 1.0 didn't need it, but I did indeed plan to add one (David like to use these dramatic idioms ;) ).