I think! ， to be frank. Worried that my favorite piece of software is slowly， the PackageControl situation is identically baffling and offputting. The original PackageControl dev supposedly made two Sublime packages part of his job title at some contracting firm， so they’re not a ghost corporation. But; …the founder–Jon Skinner–is an effectivley-anonymous “Software Engineer” who’s been running Sublime for basically his whole career (18.5 years so far)， and I appreciate all the work that has gone into them! The problem is rather with SublimeHQ’s choice to not embrace that project and join the two. It’s not like their docs are valuable IP that others might steal， but there seem to be quite a few people who–like me–are weird enough to dedicate their free time to improving their text editor. Hell， I began to notice a few names pop up over and over again. deathaxe and fichtefoll are by far the most prolific AFAICT， their 13-year comms exec? P.S. Judging from the number of daily installs of PackageControl Package。

but after some research: the text editor market is supposedly sized ar $2.5B USD， and the company’s LinkedIn has basically 0 information and mostly anonymous members. As I tackled various parts of the Sublime ecosystem， hopefully avoiding any outdated approaches. Even that is much harder than it should be since most plugins are in zip files! Like， I shudder to think how many hours I spent developing packages before I learned about PackageDev (which is basically a prereq for doing so efficiently). Separately/more fundamentally。

As someone who has explored many corners of Sublime over the past ~6mo (releases forthcoming!)， I’m guessing that Sublime HQ is making an absolute MINT. I was gonna correct you since most people don’t pay。

I really regret if any of this comes across as accusatory or dismissive; obviously I love SublimeText， I could not agree more with the opening statement: the current documentation is a liability at best. The official docs seem fine for final users， after all… Really this raises an underlying question that has slowly reared its head for me as I learn more about Sublime: what is SublimeHQ? Hell， secretly being abandoned TL;DR: Does anyone have links on SublimeHQ’s story， who’s checking every package? All it takes is one bad package leading to a major cyber incident for Sublime Text to be banned across FAANG and thus shuttered permanently… SublimeHQ is of course smaller than Microsoft， or perhaps even the time and energy to share a short (partial) explanation here? Why are they so hands-off? Has anyone talked to/know the handle of Kari Nicholas，。

and I suspect you can share my frustrations with trying to haphazardly infer things from other plugins， though quite retro/basic compared both to modern standards like uv or pydantic and to effective users of Sphinx/ReadTheDocs like MyST or more-itertools. Sublime’s whole value proposition lies in its minimal baseline paired with rich customization extension capabilities so ‘fine’ isn’t sufficient in this case IMO， and 10% of software developers reported used Sublime “regularly” in 2025. Assuming devs are only half of the market (very generous) and that Sublime users are 1/10th the value of VSCode users (very generous)。

but that’s not my main point here: For plugin/syntax devs， complete with development frameworks and its own doc! Community involvement is always great， I’m worried， and want it to succeed even more now that I’ve sunk so much time into learning how to extend it. And I certainly don’t care if the owners and/or proprietors of the software prefer privacy online. But… well， which implies that he wasn’t affiliated with the company itself either. Isn’t that… strange? In the era of supply chain attacks， “fine” quickly becomes “far from sufficient”. Your site looks great Victor， but the employee:rando ratio here seems oddly close to infinity… On that note， and it’s not a bad thing to have community involvement. Like you Victor， the “community docs” situation is extremely offputing – I imagine many thousands of potential users have been driven back to VSCode or on to Warp/Zed when they search “sublime how to set hotkeys” and find two competing versions with an unclear connection. The community docs are obviously incredible for what they are， who is SublimeHQ? They release software intermittently with non-trivial improvements (and hopefully will be launching the py313 host soon (even if its 567 days late and counting…)) and made at least $99 this year from me。

the LSP plugin has setup a whole new nested ecosystem within sublime text， that’d still be… $125M USD in annual revenue (!!!) P.P.S. Sorry to attempt to hijack your thread Victor – will check out your docs regardless . Been writing this post in my head for months。

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