Granted, the icon is just a glossed over version of the same one it has had since the beginning, and thus has more than a sniff of classic Mac OS about it, but the actual guts of the interface look and function in every way a modern Mac OS X should do. I've heard this argument before, that the interface is dated, but I'm not sure exactly what these detractors would change to make it look more fresh. It's still, in my opinion, the most powerful native Mac OS X tool for dealing with text. I've been a BBEdit fan for a long time, happy birthday, and long may it continue. Saw this same sort of comment over at The Verge, so please excuse the duplicate response if you're reading over there as well. it used to be great but other text editors have passed by BBEdit in both functionality and performance. It also looks like a 20 year old application too. It is available via the Mac App Store for $49.99 or via the Bare Bones Software website for the same price, with an option for a free trial as well. BBEdit launched at 2:19AM on Sunday, Apand is currently at version 10.1.1. The software can be used for editing, searching, and manipulating text, code, and HTML/XML markup, among many other features. That’s the biggest endorsement I can give. Nostalgia is great, but this app doesn’t belong in a museum-it belongs in my Dock. I’d raise a glass, but since BBEdit’s still a year shy of legal drinking age in most states, I’ll say only this: I wrote this article in BBEdit, and I’ll be writing the next one in BBEdit, too. So on the occasion of BBEdit’s 20th birthday, here’s a toast to the distinguished old gentleman text-editor. Now at version 10.1.1, BBEdit is sold in the Mac App Store for $50, much cheaper than it was during the early commercial era. BBEdit has grown and adapted over time, going from free to commercial, spawning a free “Lite” version that eventually became the free text editor TextWrangler. (I count two others: DragThing and Default Folder). Almost none of the other apps I used in 1997 are on my hard drive today.

And not just as a relic of the old times, but as a modern, relevant text editor. Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell published a long commemorative about his love for the software - written in BBEdit, of course:Īll of this would be an insane nostalgia trip were it not for this amazing fact: BBEdit’s still around. BBEdit, a text and code editor for thousands of Mac users for years, turns 20 today.

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