I&#x27;m not saying the sandbox is a bad thing, and I definitely like it for just downloading and trying out software of questionable quality from companies that I&#x27;ve never heard of. But it has tradeoffs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;coda-and-sandboxing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;coda-and-sandboxing&#x2F;</a><p>If you wanted to (for example) distribute Sublime Text through the App Store, you&#x27;d run into the same sorts of problems. If it&#x27;s a piece of software that I reasonably trust, do I want to make that trade? Eh. Maybe. Gain some protection against potential security bugs, lose some flexibility&#x2F;productivity.