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The award-winning Textmate code editor from MacroMates software is many a Mac programmer’s dream tool. It has powerful macros and auto-completing snippets for all the major programming languages and frameworks, and yet, it’s simple to use and remarkably easy on the eyes.
Books have been written about it. Some companies have their entire development teams running it.
But it’s also been stuck in 1.x limbo for years. Lead developer Allan Odgaard got so tired of answering the barrage of questions about TextMate 2’s release — including from those wondering if it would ever arrive — that he broke months of silence by posting a long sob story on his blog titled, “Working on It.”
He claimed version 2 is operational, but that it is “lacking the spit and polish of a finished app.” He also refused to give a release date.
The fall 2009 release of Snow Leopard brought more compatibility setbacks. It is perhaps no coincidence that Odgaard’s chosen tagline for his app is “The missing editor for OS X.”