I paid for it because it's valuable and deserves payment. I get paid for doing work in which I use it. I want its maker to continue to thrive and sustain it (a wish, I admit, that has not panned out as expected; development on Sublime Text is incredibly slow). All ethical logic says I should pay and so I did.<p>What makes you think that "nobody" pays for Sublime? Perhaps you mean, "I'm using this essential tool without paying for and I'd like to believe that lots of other people are also cheating its maker and would they please give me some rationalizations I can use to make myself feel better?" What's the question exactly?
I paid for Sublime Text 2. Still use it all the time. Worth the money.<p>The "why nobody pays for" line reminds me that at one point, a comedy site announced "first person pays for mIrc IRC client!" because really, who would pay for that program? And yet, if you looked at the occasional charity sessions the author held, it appears mIrc was pulling in $40K-$50K per month. Not going to attract VCs, but good coin.
Because apart from the popup you eventually unconsciously dismiss every x number of saves, there's no reason to pay up.<p>I've been using it for 4 years unpaid, sublime has helped me get my first home. If I was forced to tomorrow because I could no longer use it I'd pay for it immediately, but right now there's nothing pushing me to part with my cash.
Because I already got burned once paying for TextMate and having the development basically die. The same pattern seems to be happening with Sublime Text.<p>So I finally just started using Emacs instead. Setup my keybindings so they're Mac/Sublime Text like and wrote a little custom frame/window manager in elisp to make the application behave the way I want, and I'm free from having to worry about one of my core tools turning into abandonware.
I paid; while I'm not a power user, and it's a bit finicky to code for, I don't see why I <i>shouldn't</i> pay.<p>If I released a "pay if you want" product I'd want people to feel like it's worth it and give me money. It'd be hypocritical for me <i>not</i> to pay.
I paid for it because I've found it superior than all the other text editors I've used (those that are comparable e.g. Atom / MS Code just seemed to steal all it's ideas). Plus it's a business expense so you save on the taxes.<p>It's:<p>* Cross-platform<p>* A small scale team<p>* One license and I can install it on all my machines<p>* Excellent plugins [1]<p>* Fast<p>* Low memory usage / leaks<p>* Lovely UI - tabs, distraction free, removal of dividers, scroll bars, text rendering<p>* Great syntax highlighting (I'm a solarized fan and it's implemented very faithfully)<p>* Originator of some very good and well implemented ideas (AFAIK) - Crtl+Shift+P, Distraction Free, Document Map<p>* F12 to go to the definition of the function / method<p>[1]: <a href="http://txfx.net/2014/11/08/my-sublime-text-3-packages/" rel="nofollow">http://txfx.net/2014/11/08/my-sublime-text-3-packages/</a>
Software developers are such a bunch of minging cheapskates. Giving the potential for high earnings it is a wonder why so many developers are so stingy. Paying $5000 - $10000 for a set of tools which their living depends on seems to be so much why?<p>How much do builders, cab drivers for instance, pay for their tools? Why does a group of people who consider themselves to be a profession have so much problem paying for tools? How much does a doctor, a lawyer, or dentist need to shell out in order to start practising?<p>This attitude among software developers needs to change. It is no wonder so many software tools are of such poor quality.<p>I am sure a lot of Sublime and Textmate users easily pay $100 for a night out on the town, so why should paying such an amount for a tool their living depends on be such a big issue.?
I paid for it. It's incredibly useful and I use it every day, and since I expect to get paid for apps I release, why would someone else's work be different?
I paid, since I use it professionally. Just like I would donate to useful open source software if they have an option for this. They do the same to my apps...
Honestly, I perceive the price as too high, even though I use it day in and day out.<p>The price is also above my imaginary software impulse buy level. If it were $19, I would have already impulse bought a copy.<p>If it turned into trialware that disabled features after a certain amount of time, I'd ditch it and use another editor. Lame, but I'm being honest.
I was always intending to pay for Sublime but I no longer use it, now using vim for all of my editing needs.<p>Opinions on nagware aside, Sublime is a good tool and I did feel bad about using it to make a living and not contributing.. but I was also afraid to get too attached to a closed source editor. I think maybe sublime is kind of in a deadzone of being a nagware text editor that is free to use, but not an IDE with a huge feature set for an ecosystem that requires it, or an IDE that accesses some kind of propeitary vender-locked tech stack. For everything that's good about it, ultimately it's just a text editor and there are a lot of text editors of similar power out there if you're not looking for a sexy GUI.<p>So, I have no idea.
My guess is that Jon Skinner was more interested in capturing users to help him make a great editor than in maximizing the capture of money from fewer customers.<p>If he wanted to maximize the capture of money, instead of nagware it should be a exploding trial, perhaps for days of use instead of calendar days.<p>Probably the right price for Sublime Text is $49/year with upgrades included or, if not tecnically feasible, $99 permanent with no upgrade discounts. It might seem counterintuititive not to offer upgrade discounts, but Someone who has paid you once the full price is a lot more likely to pay you again the full price for a new version, especially at sub-$100 price point.
most developers hate paying for development tools. thats just how it is.<p>I payed for Sublime a long time ago for 2 reasons: 1) if I'm publishing plugins for it, I should probably have a legit license for it. 2) It's the best text editor out there for me, period. I use it enough I owe it to Jon to buy a license.<p>That said, I doubt I'll pay for any future versions licenses. I don't want to rely on closed source tools, and the editor/IDE arena has always been one of the areas I can't seem to go totally FOSS. Hopefully atom continues to improve; I might switch over when 1.0 comes out.
When I started using Sublime it seemed that the new version was just around the corner, and I thought there would probably be some sort of release (or near release) discount just around the corner as well.<p>Then the project went silent, came back, but had this weird we're back but we are mostly telling it to paying customers, so it was a bit confusing what was going on. I'm kinda still waiting to see if I should switch editor or if the release of sublime3 will reawaken the plugin ecosystem.<p>tl;dr: bad excuses.
If they collect stats on this (and I'm sure they do!) the data will be skewed. I've purchased it twice over the last few years and feel entitled to download the free version everytime because I'll be on a new/formatted computer. It's just faster, but I've still technically paid.
I have it but I don't use it much.. if at all.. I use Atom..
If the license was around half of what is it or if I can find an license on a discount I probably would and start using it regularly.
It is not part of my daily routine..
For example I have IntelliJ license because this is what I use
Because it's free and not that different?
To clarify, I use and I don't pay; but am seriously considering; probably will pay once beta's over (I'm using the beta for version 3); definitely appreciate the tool; I really enjoying using Sublime tool.
Im a casual coder and love the built in features, but never paid because I never identified as a full time developer. I always thought I would pay for it once I needed all the time, but that never happened.<p>Now I use Atom, not the same hot keys but good enough for a few docs a month.
I haven't paid for it yet, but have used for a couple of years. The reasoning was simply that v3 was about to drop, so I figured I'd wait for that before buying.<p>At this point though, I'm ready to move onto a more serious IDE.