[colinramsay]

You're right, and this opinion is technology-agnostic. Textmate vs Sublime would be a good example, in that Textmate languished while Sublime flourished. Now Sublime has an uncertain present/future, Atom [1] and projects such as Lime [2] have appeared. This still doesn't negate the fact that the original Textmate is a perfectly serviceable editor, and neither Sublime nor Atom truly offer a new, compelling day-to-day feature which would make a developer want to switch.

I'm not innocent of this - I moved from Textmate to Sublime in the hope of exciting new features, and because many people in the community did the same, I have a healthy ecosystem available to me. The point still remains that there is very little wrong with Textmate, in the same way that WPF may still be completely viable.

The new cool is the new cool. People go where the work is and go where their peers are.

[1] https://atom.io/ [2] https://github.com/limetext/lime