[TylerE]

I suspect the success of SublimeText was a big part of it too. Everything TM2 promised - today, and cross-platform to boot.

[acdha]

Well, except for the slick UI and TextMate's still ahead on features & bundles. ST2 is promising but it's too early to call this race.

[drivebyacct2]

I don't see how TM2's UI differs in any meaningful way to say it looks nicer than ST2

[acdha]

Less appearance than quality of implementation: I tried ST2 for a couple months but the random hangs got old (e.g. the file / symbol search would often hang for noticeable periods of time).

[drivebyacct2]

You might try it again. I can positively and unexaggeratedly say that I've never had ST2 hang on me.

[acdha]

I'll give it a try - I spent a bit of time this spring trying to like ST2.