[ben-schaaf]

> That seems like a ton of effort for them to keep up with, though. Would it not be easier to make an appimage?

It's really not. At SublimeHQ we simply create a deb, the rest of the packages are generated from that automatically. Obviously there's some high initial cost in setting all that up but changes to this kind of infrastructure are very infrequent.

appimages/snap/flatpak cause huge problems for development tools. You need to be able to run system executables in the system environment for stuff like build systems, git, etc.