Well, it certainly looks nice, but seems limited to mostly front-end web development work. I don't think Sublime and Textmate have anything to worry about for the foreseeable future.
Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)
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Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)
#12I just skimmed the long video.. The good: auto-refreshing preview of HTML page upon save The bad: no auto-end-brackets or end quotes as one types (ironic, considering the editor is named Brackets ) I am sure that the talented Adobe engineers will make this editor a major contender for Sublime and Textmate in the future, but at this point, I think the stunning attribute in the post title is a bit link-baitish. I'm loo…
The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...
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#13SENSATIONALIST TITLE! This seems great for web dev, but Sublime is just killer for Python, I don't see this making any editor 'look out' if you spend most of your time in a backend language.
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#14Sublime + LiveReload does basically the same thing.
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#15Is "stunning" the new "beautiful," "great," or "awesome"? I can't even bring myself to click on such a baity title.
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#16Is it me, or are they trying to hide the Brackets / Adobe relation ?
It says right on the home page that it's maintained by Adobe & the github repos are all maintained by Adobe as well. Just curious, do you think Adobe has a bad reputation for making software that would make them want to dis-associate with the company?
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#17I was (stunned).
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#18This looks interesting but what is more interesting to me is the brackets-shell, which looks to be a chromium shell for running an HTML/JS app as a native application. It looks to be very minimal and would just be fantastic for creating desktop apps. Every one of the existing solutions I've checked out so far all kinda suck in some way.
I hadn't realized that was working yet. I saw the repo for the shell itself is here https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell - it seems almost like a lightweight version of AIR. Does anybody have any more information on this..?
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#19Since the blog is loading slowly, direct link to the video:
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#20How hard would it be for someone to build and IDE (with nice code browser, refactoring and all the smart stuff... like JetBrains products) on top of or incorporating an editor like Sublime or Textmate?
I'd pay an arm and leg for IDEA or PyCharm with Sublime as the text editor (or something else with multiple cursors and all the "shiny" editor stuff), and the ability to launch either the full IDE or just the editor and be able to share editor settings, depending on what I'm doing (eg. the IDE for browsing a huge codebase or just the editor for working on a small project)...
I can even think of a business idea: 1. make awesome open source editor (Sublime text with optional Vim keybindings is awesome enough for me) 2. build smart IDE on top of it (what I expect from an IDE are things that require "understanding the code", ie. lots of language specific features, refactoring and tools integration, nice looking tree code browser etc.) 3. profit!!! (imagine that you'll also profit from the evolution of the open-source editor and from the "complex" IDE features you develop, at the same time! and the "IDE haters" that will just use the editor would use or recommend the IDE whenever they would need to navigate an ugly codebase or recommend something to someone else)