IDEs, Editors come and go.
Programming language become hot and cold.
Only thing guaranteed in life is Vim and Emacs.Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
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Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#32bye Felicia.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's plenty of point. Rotted projects are bad press.
That sounds like something you wish is true, not a reality. I can't think of a project left to rot that got notable bad press, but I can think of tons of cancelled ones that left sour tastes in people's mouths. From a brand perspective, rot is 100% the right call.
Google AppEngine (python variant) has been rotting forever. It's still stuck on Python 2 and has received no API improvements.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#34Brackets was the first text editor I used. I remember being in grade 11 computer science class and wowing my friends with the live-reloading feature for HTML sites. Good times
The live reload was so nice. Just click the icon and go, out of the box. It was also so fast it frequently made me forget I was typing in the html file and not on some content page directly.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no point in killing something which is already dead. You will only get bad press. Much easier to let it rot.
There's plenty of point. Rotted projects are bad press.
That is typical Microsoft though, they won't shutdown the plug, but will stop talking about it, you won't see any references anywhere and eventually everyone moves away.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#36IDEs, Editors come and go. Programming language become hot and cold. Only thing guaranteed in life is Vim and Emacs.
And if Vim and Emacs are guaranteed, C is implicitly guaranteed.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#37Not shocked at all. It’s hard to keep up with the pace of innovation in this space especially with a competitor as skilled as Microsoft in this arena. A text editor from Adobe never really made sense to me. I am also surprised that Atom is still kicking and hasn’t done something similar Was a great UI out of the box though I admit.
Brackets killer feature was beginner friendliness. You can type some HTML, CSS, and Javascript and you can watch it render live right there in front of you, without having to open a browser window. The very first time I sat down to try to learn some code, I tested sublime text and brackets and went with brackets because I didn't really know how to structure a development workflow. Its kind of similar to Thonny for python in that regard.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not gonna lie, I got by on Dreamweaver as an amateur web dev in the early 2000s. Made me some money while I was in college studying to be something else other than being a programmer.
Those GUI web layout tools were good. It made it so simple to make a webpage. I made a site for a car workshop in Netscape Composer for like 20USD that they hosted on the ISP homesites you used to get. A friend made one for his dad's carpentry. We knew nothing about the web or programming. The web has degenerated as a practical tool for the common man. It is programmer and SaaS lock-in nowadays.
>The web has degenerated as a practical tool for the common man. It is programmer and SaaS lock-in nowadays.
That's not really true. I can still use Notepad to create an HTML only document (remember learning HTML?), and host it on any site, and everyone can still view it on any platform. Don't even need Dreamweaver to slice an image up to do a layout in a table. Don't even need 100s of KBs of JS libraries to download to display it.
Just ignore the hype of whatever JS library is the fad darling, and go with what you know. The end user of the website probably won't care. Only other techwheenies on the internet will chide you for using such an antiquated method, and make fun of you for not being part of the cool kids.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also had HomeSite (originally by Allaire, then bought by Macromedia), which is also a text editor. However, it seems that they abandoned it right after acquisition of Macromedia.
originally by Allaire Originally by Nick Bradbury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite
Yes, ColdFusion was the Allaire brothers. J.J. now does RStudio.
Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
#40I am a core Brackets user and have been since day 1, as a designer/animator that frequently needs to write code. I suspect that I'll continue to use it without support as it is, or possibly shift back to Sublime.
I have always preferred Brackets as a simple visual editor that I can add/write small extensions as needed, without complicating the UI or process flow.
I've tried many IDEs, used dreamweaver and BBEdit for years, tried to embrace VIM and EMACs, and found that even VSCode is more than I need.
Maybe something like codeshare.io is the future of my market, taking hints from Figma?