BBEdit Returns to Mac App Store

[ealeks]

Not a single line in whole article clarifying what this software is about and why it's so awesome and promoted everywhere.

Even though I am developer (native apps) I still never heard of it or seen professionally used and recommended in last 10 years. Web devs I know use Sublime/VS Code/TextMate/more featured IDEs (mostly for free).

 

[nt5672]

The Bare Bones t-shirt from years and years ago has held up great too.

I will continue to buy licensed upgrades of BBEdit directly from them.

Me too. I do not like the iOS app store's restrictive policies. I could originally see the need for the initial iPhone, but since then Apple has only gotten unnecessarily more restrictive and abusive with their growth in popularity. And technology (sandboxing) has removed the need for such restrictive policies in the iOS App Store.

I do NOT want to encourage this same behavior in the Mac App Store and will thereby refuse to buy any App from the Mac App Store. I want to be able to install any App I want, anytime I want on my Mac. I do not want to be told that an App cannot be installed because it does not meet some Apple political correctness standard, or because it conflicts with an Apple service, or an Apple app. Make no mistake, Apple wants this very much in the Mac App Store. Of course, it's all to protect the children.
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Not a single line in whole article clarifying what this software is about and why it's so awesome and promoted everywhere. . . . .

Those of us that have been around for more than 10 years have been using this since IIRC when the original Macintosh was released. BBEdit has been updated and an adopted to every release Apple has made. It is scriptable, works with text in columns, sorts text, etc. Some of its functions are either not available or hard to use in other editors. As the old tag line use to say, "It Doesn't Suck". And that's true. So we use it because it works, it is dependable, and it is good to reward a long time developer that has stuck with us writers and code developers for over 25 years.

I've also used all of the editors you mentioned, but I keep coming back to BBEdit. Why? Because it has less frustration.

Sure it is not the flashy new thing, but I'll bet when you need to hammer nails into wood you still use a hammer and that metal head hammer was invented around 5000 years ago with steel heads for the last 500 years. The flashing new thing is not always the best tool for the job, at least to those with experience.

 

[DStaal]

This is great news! What do use this for?

Raw text, CSV, Markdown, HTML, code in any form. The list goes on and on.

I've tried some of the newcomer alternatives. Sometimes they have a feature BBEdit doesn't. (Though if the feature's any good, likely it'll be in the next version.) Usually they don't have features BBEdit does. None have quite managed to match up - which is why BBEdit is still the only real app in my Login Items. I use it dozens of times a day, and it's well worth the money to me.

 

[nt5672]

The best thing I forgot to write about BBEdit is that it is the only software today that I install updates the day they are released. BTW, I don't even bother to close documents that I am working on with unsaved changes during the app update. Did I say BBEdit is rock solid both in operation and updates. Yep, there, said it.

 

[CreatorCode]

Not a single line in whole article clarifying what this software is about and why it's so awesome and promoted everywhere.

Even though I am developer (native apps) I still never heard of it or seen professionally used and recommended in last 10 years.

Ahh, but you're a young'un, then. Only a few years in the biz!

Never fear, Apple has included some articles on the App Store itself about BBEdit.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1451975928
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1433999132
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1435835881

(Reading the articles requires the Mojave version of the App Store; High/Sierra users can buy the application but can't read the articles.)

 

[LizKat]

Ahh, but you're a young'un, then. Only a few years in the biz!

Never fear, Apple has included some articles on the App Store itself about BBEdit.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1451975928
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1433999132
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1435835881

(Reading the articles requires the Mojave version of the App Store; High/Sierra users can buy the application but can't read the articles.)

LOL... and the irony of even including those articles may escape Apple entirely. Anyway I always buy BBEdit upgrades now out of appreciation to Bare Bones for all the years I was so broke I relied on their old freebie TextWrangler. I used it constantly to clean up text that was "breakin' bad" across platforms back when the assumption was that anyone using a desktop computer in business was also driving an MS-DOS machine.

 

[TheWatchfulOne]

This is great news! What do use this for?

I use it to edit SQL scripts. BTW, it also has GIT functionality built in.

 

[ignatius345]

The popular text, code, and markup editor is a free download on the Mac App Store with full features available for $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year via in-app purchase. BBEdit remains available on a perpetual license basis for $49.99 via Bare Bones Software's online store and at participating resellers.

For literally $10 more you get to own the software instead of renting it for a year. The choice is pretty obvious. I think this speaks a lot to Apple's extreme cut of any in-app purchases made off the App Store version. I always buy software directly from the vendor if I can so they get 100% of the purchase price.
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I bought Sublime 3 several years ago, use it on Mac as well as Windows and Linux VMs, and get constant updates because I'm on the dev track. Definitely no complaints there, well worth the cost, which I've only had to pay once.

I'm a huge fan of Sublime. I confess to taking advantage of a lengthy "evaluation period" before buying, but finally just forked over the money last year because I like it so much.