I am a long-term Skype user, and use it on a daily basis for contact and conferences with business clients overseas. I, therefore, follow all updates to Skype with interest, and trepidation. When ownership of the software changed hands, I must confess I expected the quality of the product to drop. But the reality is otherwise.

PROS: Although call quality depends heavily on the quality of your internet connection, overall call quality, both for audio and video, is excellent. The programmers are constantly asking for user feedback and improving on the quality of the software. Basic usage - peer-to-peer audio/video calling, text messaging and file sharing - is free. Ability to make calls to land lines and mobiles anywhere in the world, and to expand the functionality with paid add-on services - voicemail, online number, group calling, etc.

CONS: Unless you are only interested in talking to North America and Europe, pricing of paid calls and add-on services will be too high. Interface seems to be evolving to become less Mac-like and more intrusive - larger windows, using non-standard interface widgets. Still lacks some necessary features, such as secure (encrypted) calling, and call recording.

CONCLUSION: An extremely worthwhile, dependable piece of software, that provides reliably good video and audio calls. It is very likely that Skype would be even more popular and prevalent in the business world, if its paid services and add-ons were comparably cheaper outside the US, Canada and Europe.

PROS:
* easy-to-learn, English-like programming language
* specially easy for beginners to learn procedural programming
* active user base

CONS:
* interface of IDE is awkward, dated and ugly.
* desktop apps made with the framework do not use native controls, and use instead the same, outdated GUI of the IDE by default. GUI customisation of your apps is possible to a good degree, but very time-consuming and tricky.
* the framework struggles with international characters and text, and support for unicode is terrible.
* no built-in support for vector graphic formats like SVG or PDF
* basic framework features - like 'User Preferences', 'Document' or even proper 'Undo' management, are left for the user to develop on their own
* development of client-based "web apps" requires the client to instal a browser plug-in, which is currently unusably buggy, and whose development seems to have stopped
* server-based (web) apps run into numerous problems due to poor support for unicode and international text
* Pricing is ridiculously expensive - about $800 if you want the complete development package for all platforms - when compared to other, much more polished tools.

CONCLUSION:
A sadly outdated tool, which needs some urgent updating and enhancing in order to justify its price bracket. Until this update comes, it may be wiser to invest your programming money and time in other more modern, feature-full, and cheaper, alternatives.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

PROS:
* Unlimited demo - use all features for as long as you like, pay when you decide to keep it.
* Extremely customisable and extensible, to a fault - interface and syntax colour schemes, snippets, macros, customisable commands, build and command-line integration, plug-ins, you name it.
* Amazingly large and friendly community - forums, wikis and irc, lots of community-driven development (themes, syntaxes and and plug-ins), and a wonderfully responsive developer.

CONS:
* poor and incomplete documentation - for such a feature-full programme, charging 'pro' editor prices, I expected a complete set of searchable docs. The half-completed online wiki is a poor excuse of a user guide.
* plug-ins will be required - you will want to search through the web to find and install several of the many (wonderful) plug-ins available from the user community, which give the programme features for your particular programming needs and workflow.

CONCLUSION
Currently, more impressive than TextMate, BBEdit and - dare I say it - a contender for vim. It truly is Sublime.

Wonderful app - good interface, stable, and feature-full. I have to agree with the other posters, however, that the pricing makes it a deal breaker for me. Compare with GitBox (currently $20), and SourceTree (currently FREE), and the $60 tag seems to be out-of-touch with the market.