Ask HN: Is Sublime Text abandonware?

[ihaveqvestion]

The developer, Jon Skinner, has not tweeted since Dec. 17 [1], has not posted to the blog since Dec. 18 [2], and the latest dev build was released on Dec. 21 [3]. He signed into the forums today [4], but has not replied to any posts (including those asking about the status of Sublime Text) since Dec. 21 [5].

I was thinking about buying Sublime Text, but if it's dead on arrival, then I'd rather save the money. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?

    [1] https://twitter.com/sublimehq
    [2] http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/
    [3] http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
    [4] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
    [5] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/search.php?author_id=2&sr=posts

[DanielStraight]

Asked and answered a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7565213

[ihaveqvestion]

Thanks, that's slightly reassuring. It's still odd for a business to go generally incommunicado, though. I think I'll probably wait to buy a license until Kari's words are substantiated.

[jbrooksuk]

No. Jon is busy.

Have you ever worked in a place where you're trying to work on something and other staff members keep coming up to you and asking "how much longer?" "are you almost done?". Being in the position Jon is, he can just shut out the world and focus.

I'd love to be able to do that.

Just give him time and space.

[mattwritescode]

I think if he no longer wants to support the project it should be open sourced. It would be a shame if the time comes and he doesnt want to do it any longer that the project is just lost.

[tlongren]

No clue but I'd like to know, too. Doesn't really matter as I've already bought it, but I'd like to see it maintained. I use it daily.

[justin66]

He's got his head down, working really hard in a room somewhere cooking up the best pretty print feature the world has ever seen. Duh.