![]() It may be that the TM mailing list has answers to some of these questions, but I just don’t have the heart to go there and look. A public alpha? Does that mean that TM2 still isn’t feature-complete? And if you’re going to release an alpha, why hold off another few months? Why should we have to wait for a buggy, crashy, incomplete application? Can’t we get buggy, crashy, and incomplete now? So we get the announcement, and it raises more questions than it answers. Questions about TextMate 2 on the TM mailing list are one thing, a public perception throughout the Mac community that you’re going to renege on a promise you made repeatedly is something else. It’s impossible to believe that all this bad news had no influence on Odgaard. Dan Benjamin is probably the most influential purveyor of this notion for a few weeks, he seemed to say it on every 5by5 podcast. Worse is the conventional wisdom settling around the idea that TextMate has reached the end of the line, that version 2 will never be released. Lots of people have left TextMate, and those who haven’t ( ahem) have been thinking hard about when they might be forced to. BBEdit 10 was not only a significant upgrade with an aggressive price, it was a reminder that Bare Bones has acted like a company of grownups, consistently releasing improvements rather than hinting and hiding. ![]() I’m not big on conspiracy theories, ulterior motives, or “the real story,” but if Allan Odgaard were to announce that he’d been planning for months to release a public alpha of TextMate 2 by the end of the year, that it had nothing to do with BBEdit 10, the switching of longtime users, or the persistent speculation that TextMate 2 will never be released, I’d call bullshit. Next post Previous post What's it all about, Alpha? ![]()
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