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Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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I still love brackets. I don't use any fancy plugins or even live preview. All I care about is speed and good search. What are my options?

Sorry to be that guy, but vim might fit your needs well if you're ok with working in a terminal

I'm afraid I'm a nano guy. Though, I have never given vim a chance so maybe I should spend an evening with it.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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I use to love brackets, especially with the responsive plugin. That made responsive development so easy. But then visual studio code came along and I stopped using it apart from for the responsive work. When the responsive plugin no longer worked I stopped using brackets all together.

I still love brackets. I don't use any fancy plugins or even live preview. All I care about is speed and good search. What are my options?

Maybe Nova if you’re on a Mac.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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such a strange juxtaposition -- on Github (was "open source central"), Adobe (commercial since day 0) announces BasicToolProduct is "over" .. Please note, corporate discontinuation of software products is exactly why FOSS is not optional!

> If you would like to continue using, maintaining, and improving Brackets, you may fork the project on GitHub.

https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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I'm a pretty happy VSCode user but I do find it pretty heavy and startup is pretty slow, even on my M1 Mac.

I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently, although it is perfectly serviceable. The TypeScript experience is still a way off VSCode's though and it would be nice to get an Apple Silicon build.

Does anyone have any recommendations for modern text editors? I use a bit of Vim from time-to-time but would struggle to make it my main editor.

Tempted to give https://nova.app/ a try.

Re: Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

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More like used to. There is like what, a single app for prototyping which is more on the mobile side. and the rest (Dreamweaver and co) have not been significantly updated for years. There is absolutely nothing left of the Macromedia era. Creating and fostering creative communities is something Adobe completely failed at. Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks had a vibrant ecosystem of plugins which was their strength. As…

I so appreciate your call out of the loss of the Macromedia ecosystem. The tools they created not only revolutionized the web but in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash. It makes me sad to think that rather than let the stronger parts of the Macromedia dna infuse Adobe, it seems like Adobe forced Macromedia fit into its larger, which in certain areas has been an as yet unreplac…

> …in terms of the “creators experience” we have yet to see the parallel of Flash…

Flash Professional lives! It has a different name and targets multiple standards-based formats (HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, SVG) now: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

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