On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:20, Stuart Wheeler wrote:
What is the target audience of TextMate?
Interesting question :) As of such, I had myself in mind when I wrote TextMate -- I expect that people who want things to be simple, even when it requires work to make them simple, sums up the type of person I think of as the ideal TextMate user.
So there's no particular task I have in mind for TM and the skill set I expect from the user is curiosity and the ability to combine existing tools to solve new problems (and long term, shell programming + regular expressions, but this can be learned hand in hand with TM).
I don't know how well this fit other editors. Personally I think most editors try to solve a specific task instead of offering “tools” to be combined. Emacs and vim being the exceptions, but these do IMHO fail to make the simple stuff simple, they have a very steep learning curve, and they just don't fit in on OS X -- so probably the target audience for TM is people who really wanted to use Emacs/vim if it wasn't for the disadvantages just mentioned.
Oh, and my envisioned target audience had no printer! ;)