Eric Knapp wrote:
There is a good discussion on the post I linked to about this. Lots of people are saying that this is a really good thing for the TextMate community. However, I'm not so sure. I realize that there is nothing anyone can do about it but if this editor take off on Win and Linux there is really nothing to stop him from porting to OS X too. I guess I've seen good intentions blow up in faces too many times to be excited about this. I can only hope that everything works out well for everyone, but I'm skeptical.
No matter how good this guy is as a programmer, I have a lot of trouble believing he'll be able to make a competent TextMate lookalike using a cross-platform GUI toolkit, and completely cross-platform–compatible code, by himself, in a short period of time. There's so much that relies on Apple-specific stuff to work. I'm not holding my breath for these TextMate clones. Instead, I think it's a better idea for windows guys to just target windows, and use all the techs available to them on *that* platform, to make the best windows editor they can, and while borrowing ideas from TM is useful (like scopes, etc.), I don't think lifting the bundles wholesale is going to do much use for anyone.
-Jacob