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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

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Post by rchaud »

rkhassen9 wrote: post #18
throw_m239339 wrote: post #12

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More like used to. There is like what, a single app for prototyping which is more on the mobile side. and the rest (Dreamweaver and co) have not been significantly updated for years. There is absolutely nothing left of the Macromedia era. Creating and fostering creative communities is something Adobe completely failed at. Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks had a vibrant ecosystem of plugins which was their strength. As…

I so appreciate your call out of the loss of the Macromedia ecosystem. The tools they created not only revolutionized the web but in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash. It makes me sad to think that rather than let the stronger parts of the Macromedia dna infuse Adobe, it seems like Adobe forced Macromedia fit into its larger, which in certain areas has been an as yet unreplac…

Over time, I've come to think that the golden age of Flash existed because the Internet itself had not yet become fragmented across app stores, social media and mobile/desktop viewports.

In the golden age of Flash, designers only had one viewport to build for. It was easier to bring attention to them too, as FB and Twitter were relatively new and didn't explicitly favor content created on their own platform (posts + videos).

With the exponential increase in user-generated content (Snaps, YT videos, blogspam, Instagram), there's pretty much no oxygen left for creators that are building things "just because".

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by bdcravens »

ungzd wrote: post #8
oblio wrote: post #7

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It did make sense. Adobe creates authoring tools and the web is a target platform. Think of Dreamweaver.

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.

Homesite was great. Early versions of it were small enough you could carry it around on a 1.44mb floppy.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by professoretc »

harg wrote: post #46

I'm a pretty happy VSCode user but I do find it pretty heavy and startup is pretty slow, even on my M1 Mac. I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently, although it is perfectly serviceable. The TypeScript experience is still a way off VSCode's though and it would be nice to get an Apple Silicon build. Does anyone have any recommendations for modern text editors? I use a b…

> I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently

I think the devs are putting their effort into ST4 while unfortunately letting 3 somewhat languish. The same thing happened with the 2 -> 3 transition; 2 sat around without getting any updates for a long while, and then 3 was released.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by ensignavenger »

benrbray wrote: post #15
realityking wrote: post #3

VisualStudio Code is really taking over, at least in terms of the commercial world. I wonder if GitHub’s Atom is next.

Since VS Code is open-source under an MIT license, it's hard to complain! I'm glad to be using a single editor for almost all my coding, customized just the way I like.

Unfortunately more and more of Microsoft's VS Code extensions are going closed source.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by drivingmenuts »

racl101 wrote: post #23
oblio wrote: post #7

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It did make sense. Adobe creates authoring tools and the web is a target platform. Think of Dreamweaver.

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.

I rather liked Dreamweaver for static sites that needed to be user-modifiable without some complicated backend. You could establish templates with clear descriptions of the content and turn it over to the end-user relativily easily. Now, I have no idea - I wouldn’t want to try and explain markdown to a church secretary.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by sli »

coder543 wrote: post #20
benrbray wrote: post #15

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Since VS Code is open-source under an MIT license, it's hard to complain! I'm glad to be using a single editor for almost all my coding, customized just the way I like.

VS Code is not as open source as you might think. A lot of critical functionality is in plugins that aren't FOSS, such as the Python plugin and the Remote plugins (Container, SSH, etc.). I think you're also not able to (or not supposed to? unsure) access the official plugin directory with an open source build. I definitely appreciate that the core is open source, but using the open source version is less fun than it…

I still use Sublime Text to this day because it's far and away the fastest option among these usuals, and I do most everything else in a terminal. VSCode is turning into the Chrome of free IDEs and I really don't like that direction at all.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I'm missing in Sublime, anyway.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by rkhassen9 »

CharlesW wrote: post #48
rkhassen9 wrote: post #18

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I so appreciate your call out of the loss of the Macromedia ecosystem. The tools they created not only revolutionized the web but in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash. It makes me sad to think that rather than let the stronger parts of the Macromedia dna infuse Adobe, it seems like Adobe forced Macromedia fit into its larger, which in certain areas has been an as yet unreplac…

> …in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash… Flash Professional lives! It has a different name and targets multiple standards-based formats (HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, SVG) now: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

Um....not really. It’s barely a shell of what it was.

Flash is no longer supported by browsers. Air is not supported by Adobe. Canvas and Web Gl maybe.

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/05/30/the-future-of-a...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3403345/where-do-brows...

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Post by bttrfl »

yhoiseth wrote: post #44
bttrfl wrote: post #11

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I still love brackets. I don't use any fancy plugins or even live preview. All I care about is speed and good search. What are my options?

Maybe Nova if you’re on a Mac.

Thanks, but it looks like Nova does too many things to my liking.
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