Still a great program. Better than the garbage built-in TextEdit, way faster than something like VSCode.
BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
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Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#42Nobody has mentioned the manual. It is fantastic!
To this day I still open the BBEdit manual (to chapter 30, maybe?) if I want to figure out how to write some Regex.
I’ve never seen such clear and comprehensive instructions on Regex anywhere else.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#43Congratulations!
I love BBEdit.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#44I, too, have been using this delightful editor since the early 1990's -- once known as TextWrangler. Still going strong! Their mission statement is spot on: We don’t have investors to impress, so we don’t need a “mission statement.” We enjoy writing and shipping great products that address the needs of ourselves and our customers.
TextWrangler was a spin-off product giving some of BBEdit for free
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#45I’ve been using it for most of those years, and still use it every day. We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open them, while I happily regexed my way around extracting various data.
However, I reluctantly have to say that when working with TypeScript codebases specifically, I do feel the lack of IDE features for recognizing imports and cross-referencing symbols across files. Any other BBEdit diehards in this position? What have you ended up doing?
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#46BBEdit was one of the best apps on my very first Mac in 1995, and I've been using it ever since. No other software I use has more years of service under its belt. 68k, PowerPC, Intel, ... — that alone is such a rare achievement. I don't know any other commercial software with such a track record.
They will pry it from my cold, dead hands once I'm gone.
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#47Nobody has mentioned the manual. It is fantastic! To this day I still open the BBEdit manual (to chapter 30, maybe?) if I want to figure out how to write some Regex. I’ve never seen such clear and comprehensive instructions on Regex anywhere else.
Completely agree. One of the best software manuals ever written. And I too refer to the Regex chapter.
I believe John Gruber wrote a significant portion of the manual back in the late 1990s
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#48It doesn't suck
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#49BBEdit was one of the best apps on my very first Mac in 1995, and I've been using it ever since. No other software I use has more years of service under its belt. 68k, PowerPC, Intel, ... — that alone is such a rare achievement. I don't know any other commercial software with such a track record. They will pry it from my cold, dead hands once I'm gone.
I have also been using BBEdit for a decade now, but didn't know that it had such a history behind it.
Long live BBEdit + Vim...
Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
#50I remember attending an early 90s Mac users group at MIT where Rich came and demoed the then-new BBEdit, ran through the basic features, answered a few questions, and raffled off a license. A colleague won it. Glad to hear he's still at it.