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coldtea on May 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Sublime Text update

>Most sane projects create a build and test it, and don't rely on testing source code because the build process itself can cause defects as well.

Most indie-dev projects don't do testing, or TDD, or automated build tests at all. It's a guy or 2-3 guys with their XCodes/VSs.

At best, they might have a few tests.

It's different from big companies like FB/Google/etc, or from software like Adobe's, and much different than JS/Java land.

nikolay on May 13, 2016 [–]

And that's why I wonder why he doesn't push to us on the dev channel to test for a bit before pushing as stable. Yeah, it would be different packaging than the /3dev build, but does it matter? As long as he can get feedback and keep us on the last version, it works for me!

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