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In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options? (discuss.online)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Sublime Text is not open-source but it has a sane price and a WinRAR-style trial. I use it because it feels a lot snappier than other editors/IDEs I've tried when browsing large files.

On the one hand, it's a shame that it's not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I use it because it feels a lot snappier than other editors/IDEs I’ve tried when browsing large files.

    Snappiness is definitely something I appreciate. So, if it blows everything else out of the water in this respect, that I might have to concede. Thank you for mentioning this particular aspect of it!

    On the one hand, it’s a shame that it’s not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.

    I wholeheartedly agree. But, I prefer the capability to donate to the open-source software developers that I love to support.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wholeheartedly agree. But, I prefer the capability to donate to the open-source software developers that I love to support.

    Right indeed, not sure why it was implied that open source software couldn't be a financially viable option for developers too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On the one hand, it’s a shame that it’s not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.

    I'm pretty sure most people here, at least I hope, who use open source and free software directly money donate to developers. I know of plenty of developers who do get paid writing open source through such donations or via funding, e.g. NLNet or grants. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement, are you saying Sublime Text isn't open source because they believe those ways are not appropriate for them?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wrote a whole comment in which I mused about the reason why Sublime Text isn't open-source. However, a brief search found one developer's answer: They just don't think that typical FOSS funding is sustainable for their particular project.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    FWIW I'm donating every month to CodeMirror author, donates to Vim, etc. I'm not saying they are wrong, nor right, solely that implying (but maybe I misunderstood the comment) that somehow open-source and getting paid are antagonist is IMHO damaging to FLOSS broadly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's a fair point. Still, I think it's also worth acknowledging that getting paid to develop open-source software can often be more difficult than getting paid for proprietary work. According to Tidelift State of Open Source Maintainer report, 44 % of FOSS maintainers aren't getting paid for their work but would like to. Interestingly, 36 % of FOSS maintainers are getting some monetary compensation.¹

    (I'm responding mostly because I found that survey. Interesting numbers.)

    ¹ I thought this number would be smaller. Alas, I am a pessimist.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    44 %

    Very interesting, thanks for sharing. That number is of course way too high. I won't point fingers but... OK I will, I would argue, naively, that a lot of that frustration comes from corporate exploitation. I bet a lot of that comes from maintainer who noticed big number of downloads on CDN but no PR because somehow a paid for tool (so not blaming just BigTech here) relies on their work... and they don't see a cent for it.

    I doubt most people who have a quirky side project, say something about how to use Lego controllers for their model train on the weekends with kids, really mind. Sure they'd love to see a bit of money from it but whatever.

    Anyway I'll dig into that report a bit more, thanks for sharing!

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