David Clark wrote:
Alan does not owe anybody anything.
If you are unhappy with TM1 use another application - end of story.
The problem is that since TextMate 2 was announced -- which at this point is well over three years ago -- there's been very little other than maintenance releases on TM 1, and sometimes those have been few and far between. While this is a subjective measure, by my count the last substantive new features to TM 1 were added in 2008.
We were told, in June 2009, that work was 90% completed. "I use 2.0 for my own work, day-to-day, and the basic infrastructure is pretty solid," Allan wrote then. "Hopefully an alpha version will be ready before too long."
That was nearly two years ago. And it's nearly a year and a half past the followup post in January 2010 that referred to "the version I hope to release in maybe half a year."
It's kind of tough to swallow the implicit argument that now, as we head into May 2011, there still isn't anything that's releasable as an alpha. And *that's* what has people worried, I think, more than anything else.