[tstrimple]

I used to be a fan of the Sublime tools. But the complete lack of updates over a reasonable timescale have led me to move on to more supported platforms. I like the concept of a small team of developers providing a good tool. But the reality often means that you don't see any worthwhile upgrades. And I realize I'm commenting on HN, a place where the majority of people seem to have abandoned the hacker spirit and leaned more into curmudgeon aesthetics instead. The general sentiment here seems to be far more of don't try to innovate. Just do what we expect you to in the way we expect you to which matches how we would have built this tool 20 years ago.

> Cloud? Why? You can literally do anything on a VPS with Postgres!

> AI? Not on my watch! I can't imagine a tool that does more than VIM two decades ago!

> Javascript?! What a shit language. Everything should be written in Java or C++.

[fastball]

What is a reasonable timescale? They last released an update for Sublime Merge in April. What features are you missing that they haven't added? What bugs are present that need to be fixed?

[zamalek]

I'm a paying user. The ability to diff across two commits/branches. I still have to flip over to GitHub if I want that kind of view.

[tokyovigilante]

I use SM (and paid). Just select both commits, regardless of branch, and the diff is shown.

[zamalek]

Thanks! That seems to work!

[on_the_train]

The last news on the website is from 2022. Is there another place to see updates? Because I too had all sublime tools as "abandoned" in my mind.

[not_the_fda]

The download page have decent release cycle.

https://www.sublimemerge.com/download

https://www.sublimetext.com/download

And they have dev releases.

https://www.sublimemerge.com/dev

https://www.sublimetext.com/dev

Its mature software that doesn't require a constant churn of bug fixes and updates, that's not a bad thing.

[on_the_train]

They might want to consider posting those on the news site then. Because it looks abandoned

[SassyBird]

Following fashion has nothing to do with hacking.

[norman784]

> Cloud? Why? You can literally do anything on a VPS with Postgres!

In my case I don't want to maintain a server, but a web service, hence I'd prefer cloud most of the time.

> AI? Not on my watch! I can't imagine a tool that does more than VIM two decades ago!

There are a few instances where it's useful, but if you abuse the use of AI (copilot and co), then you will most likely not understand the code the same way if you were the one that wrote it, even if it is a 1:1 match.

> Javascript?! What a shit language.

Indeed Javascript is bad language, but it's hard to avoid if you work on the frontend, WASM is not yet there to be an alternative for most use cases.

> Everything should be written in Java or C++.

I would say at this point in time you will most likely to get away with Go (instead of Java) or Rust (instead of C++).

[teaearlgraycold]

I like cloud, AI, and Javascript - and I’m not ashamed!