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I wouldn’t even try to follow Intype’s development by now if not for forum’s RSS feed. I probably won’t delete it, so there will be at least one person around if the release finally happens.
But I know for sure now that I’m not going to buy the final product. I got used to the alternatives by now so much, that I no longer really need it, even though I still consider it to be a very well crafted piece of software. But that’s not enough and since martin constantly fails at communication with the community, I’m not very enthusiastic about buying an application that will probably have no real support.
Sigh, sorry to say that. I used to be very enthusiastic about this project.
I think that lack of full-time development is the key in Intype’s slow progress. Martin recently confirmed it saying that Intype is not main part of his life, rather just a hobby. Writing an innovative text editor is definitely a hard task, and Textmate, E, and Sublime authors work on their editors fulltime. So this is not surprising that Intype development goes slow. Both E and Sublime develop faster, so we have alternatives.
It was always known, that Intype is being developed in spare time. This fact has the main influence on how is Intype developed. As we knew from the very beginning, we would never be as fast as other potential full-time competitors, we had to focus on doing things better and think of ways that helps us achieve better results in feature consistence and gain, performance and system requirements. This is what we consider to be our advantage. Yes, we have to switch between development, community, and other things in our lives, but that’s the price we are paying, as you see it in discussions like this. But the actual release had always been a boost in support of the community and positive response. So we do it like we can, until the project really starts to be commercial and we will be able to free much more of time for development and communication.
Seems that martin’s words from above should be placed on blog or front page of intype.info, and many user questions and disappointment can be avoided. Thanks for information, martin, and I’m waiting for next release, no matter how long it will take. Intype is good.
i agree
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