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It was also 30 years old last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008290
Ha, I missed that. Ok, we've incremented its age in the title above. Thanks! (Submitted title was "BBEdit is 30 years old") Edit: some people didn't like "BBEdit is 31 years old" so I took another crack at changing it. Edit edit: never mind. Edit edit edit: never never mind.
My late `09 Mac Mini blew up a few years ago. I had a spare one a friend gave me that I fired up and when I sent an email to the BBEDit folks asking if could download and unlock that version they gave it to me without any hesitation. All they asked for was my email address. Same with the folks at "Fetch". Adobe basically told to piss off when I asked for a copy of the version of Photoshop I'd paid for. I downloaded a…
Long LOOOONG ago, I had a good relationship with Adobe. For instance, I was one of the beta-testers for Photoshop 3.0 (which was the first to do native CMYK). Would talk with them all the time over the phone. But those guys have long since left the company and the "bean counters" took over the company and it has been downhill ever since. I too will never give them another dime. I don't mind their products, I just can…
…I say as someone who used Photoshop 1.0. (And HyperCard.)
Hmmm. Seems like it's 31+ years old. Here's Gruber on the 30th anniversary: https://daringfireball.net/2022/04/30_years_of_bbedit_not_su...
I believe it is Bare Bones Software (the company) that is having its 30th anniversary this month https://www.barebones.com/company/ >, rather than BBEdit (the program).
MacOS had two amazing editors before SublimeText and VS Code came along. TextMate and BBEdit. TextMate is no longer supported (if I remember correctly). But BBEdit is still going strong. To this day, BBEdit's diff utility is still my favorite. Also, BBEdit always provided free, incredible and comprehensive user manual PDF.
I know the Worksheet concept wasn't invented by Bare Bones - I think they borrowed it from the original MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop), which used to be what the cool kids used to build Mac software before there were competing IDEs. But Bare Bones definitely perfected it.
BBEdit is one of the few apps I miss from the Mac world. ResEdit/Resourcerer are up there as well, being able to naively open up the resource fork and customize applications and sometimes make massive changes to them was great fun.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): https://www.barebones.com/company/ >. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted the "30th Anniversary special pricing” text as applying to the BBEdit program itself.
"On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit." https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/110350464886512663 The new title now seems inaccurate, or not reflecting the intention, given that, and given that the linked page says "30th Anniversary special pricing! Use the coupon code “BBEDIT30” at checkout to get BBEdit for US$30 for a limited time."
BBEdit was 30 years old last year because it really was around in 1992, but it wasn’t commercially available. It was basically Rich Siegel and his friends. 1993 is when it became commercially available at version 2.5.
It was also 30 years old last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008290
Ha, I missed that. Ok, we've incremented its age in the title above. Thanks! (Submitted title was "BBEdit is 30 years old") Edit: some people didn't like "BBEdit is 31 years old" so I took another crack at changing it. Edit edit: never mind. Edit edit edit: never never mind.