BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
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BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
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Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#2Even the free version (formerly TextEdit IIRC) is very good.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#3I started programming on Macs in the early 90s, and I used BBEdit the entire time that I was on the platform. I no longer work on Macs, but I would love to see a Linux version. Never going to happen, but it's one of the few pieces of software that I still miss.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#4Even the free version (formerly TextEdit IIRC) is very good.
>formerly TextEdit IIRC
TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#5I’d be really interested in reading a history of the codebase: from classic Mac Toolbox to whatever it looks like today. Is it still mostly C? A weird mishmash of C, C++, Obj-C, and Swift? What UI toolkit does it use?
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#6I started programming on Macs in the early 90s, and I used BBEdit the entire time that I was on the platform. I no longer work on Macs, but I would love to see a Linux version. Never going to happen, but it's one of the few pieces of software that I still miss.
Sublime Text is suffice for me. Cross-platform and extendable.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#7absolutely use this on a regular basis - congratulations "boston" edit!
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#8Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#9Related:
BBEdit is 30 years old today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008290 - April 2022 (104 comments)
BBEdit 14 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905644 - July 2021 (159 comments)
BBEdit 13.0 Release Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156348 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)
BBEdit is turning 25 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602488 - Dec 2018 (14 comments)
Bare Bones Software Celebrates BBEdit's 25th Anniversary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17052289 - May 2018 (2 comments)
What's new in BBEdit 12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15487561 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)
TextWrangler to Be Retired as Bare Bones Software Focuses Development on BBEdit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13779768 - March 2017 (3 comments)
Why would a front-end developer on OS X use any editor besides BBEdit? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9214963 - March 2015 (11 comments)
Back to BBEdit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479905 - Oct 2014 (3 comments)
Macintosh Text Editor BBEdit Turns 20 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3833672 - April 2012 (32 comments)
Bare Bones releases BBEdit 10, cuts the price - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781942 - July 2011 (3 comments)
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#10I've been using BBEdit since college and I love it. I was and is my primary text editor for all of my development (except Java and Swift which basically require an IDE).
Also, it's funny: I am only marginally older than BBEdit. I can't imagine running a software project for so long, let alone so successfully.
Keep up the great work BareBones!