Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
The headline on the Landing Page says &quot;Elegant Free Open-Source&quot;. I for one applaud these great selling propositions.<p>And I&#x27;m speaking after using Emacs and VIM for 15 years having not seen one other editor concept that was ultimately superior.<p>Sublime Text was horrible in that it offered an easy refuge so many young and inexperienced people. But ultimately it was a closed source prison that they got pulled into. And yes, I&#x27;m a professional developer having founded multiple companies. I&#x27;m a capitalist, nothing wrong with selling software. However, having great tools that last a lifetime available is one of the most important point I learned and like to teach to my students (I&#x27;m a lecturer, too).<p>Why lock yourself in? Just because it looks more shiny and is easier in the first week? That&#x27;s a good reason to use many things, but not your primary driver as a professional software engineer.<p>Hooray for these new editors that look shiny and are open source. And then, when the students ask how I did those crazy things in Emacs, they still get those huge eyes and want to gobble all the information in. This kind of curiousness happens rarely with people locked into proprietary systems.