I would pay for a $10 a month subscription/support contract to Sublime if it was Open Sourced... properly where the community can get involved in the development.
This coming along scares me that an already tenuous situation around the future of Sublime Text may implode due to this new editor... and it isnt even open source. I'd rather build my own highly customised GUI+CLI macvim/emacs with both python and JS plugin backends than switch from one closed source editor to another just because its new and uses Node... I dont normally swear on hacker news ... but fuck that shit.
before you jump to writing your own text editor from scratch, consider contributing to textadept. it's about half the text editor that sublimetext is, but it's lua based, already exists, and it is totally open source.
This coming along scares me that an already tenuous situation around the future of Sublime Text may implode due to this new editor... and it isnt even open source. I'd rather build my own highly customised GUI+CLI macvim/emacs with both python and JS plugin backends than switch from one closed source editor to another just because its new and uses Node... I dont normally swear on hacker news ... but fuck that shit.