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Definitely a great utility, but recently a bought the new version and just a few weeks later a new version was released that required me to buy it again. That soured me a bit on the company.
I really like CotEditor though. Fully native Mac app, works great.
A couple days ago I started thinking that VS Code had slowly morphed into something that was starting to feel bloated. I took a look at Sublime, which I once loved, but the customization to make it look like I wanted seemed like too much. Maybe I’ll give BBEdit a try; I don’t think I’ve ever used it.
I’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…
Way back with version 4 (I think), I used it to work on a CSV that was way larger than the amount of RAM I had in the computer. Amazingly responsive. Not that long ago I used it on some XML monstrosities that were pushing a gig in size. Still worked.
I still use it as my main environment today. Over the years you accumulate a variety of little snippets and scripts (in all sorts of languages, including AppleScript) and whatnot that help with your particular workflow. It's very much like a prettier, pointy-clickier version of Emacs in this way.
I really miss BareBones Mailsmith, which was like BBEdit for mail. In today's world where everybody uses HTML email (boo!), it wouldn't be so great, but man alive it was good.
I switched to CotEditor a few years ago, but before that I used BBEdit starting from way back on System 6 on a Mac SE. Definitely a great utility, but recently a bought the new version and just a few weeks later a new version was released that required me to buy it again. That soured me a bit on the company. I really like CotEditor though. Fully native Mac app, works great.
I switched to CotEditor a few years ago, but before that I used BBEdit starting from way back on System 6 on a Mac SE. Definitely a great utility, but recently a bought the new version and just a few weeks later a new version was released that required me to buy it again. That soured me a bit on the company. I really like CotEditor though. Fully native Mac app, works great.
If you bought a license and then "just a few weeks later a new version was released", then you were eligible for a free upgrade. And you can still get it; try writing to 'sales@barebones.com' and asking. (Odds are that your free upgrade email was sent and you didn't see it, or it got spam-filtered.)
I’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?