7 ms·
Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
- s1mon 6y agoI’m not the target market, but if the first time I’m reading about a product is when it’s being discontinued, perhaps there were marketing and/or product/market fit issues.
- 1123581321 6y agoI think they were right on the target market. It used to be a, perhaps, top five editor, especially for people doing front-end development. VS Code just came in and changed everything.
- no_wizard 6y agoNot shocked at all. It’s hard to keep up with the pace of innovation in this space especially with a competitor as skilled as Microsoft in this arena. A text editor from Adobe never really made sense to me. I am also surprised that Atom is still kicking and hasn’t done something similar Was a great UI out of the box though I admit.
- macspoofing 6y ago>It’s hard to keep up with the pace of innovation in this space especially with a competitor as skilled as Microsoft in this arena. In hindsight yes, but even a few years ago the 'lightweight IDE/Text Editor' scene was wide open with no clear winner. You had products like Sublime Text, TextMate (mac), Atom, Brackets, and a bunch of other ones competing for mindshare.
- oblio 6y agoIt did make sense. Adobe creates authoring tools and the web is a target platform. Think of Dreamweaver.
- throw_m239339 6y agoMore 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 for their creative products, Photoshop and In Design are still king in the industry, because formats, but for how long? People in video editing are moving to Final Cut Pro, Da Vinci Resolve and co because of the lack of significant improvements in After Effects or Premiere.
- rkhassen9 6y agoI 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 unreplaceable loss for creatives.
- CharlesW 6y ago> …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 https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
- rkhassen9 6y agoUm....not really. It’s barely a shell of what it was. Flash is no longer supported by browsers. Air is not supported by Adobe. Canvas and Web Gl maybe. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/05/30/the-future-of-adobe-air.html#gs.unf6sw https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/05/30/the-future-of-a... https://www.computerworld.com/article/3403345/where-do-browsers-stand-on-flashs-impending-demise.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3403345/where-do-brows...
- farisjarrah 6y agoBrackets killer feature was beginner friendliness. You can type some HTML, CSS, and Javascript and you can watch it render live right there in front of you, without having to open a browser window. The very first time I sat down to try to learn some code, I tested sublime text and brackets and went with brackets because I didn't really know how to structure a development workflow. Its kind of similar to Thonny for python in that regard.
- realityking 6y agoVisualStudio Code is really taking over, at least in terms of the commercial world. I wonder if GitHub’s Atom is next.
- benrbray 6y agoSince VS Code is open-source under an MIT license, it's hard to complain! I'm glad to be using a single editor for almost all my coding, customized just the way I like.
- coder543 6y agoVS Code is not as open source as you might think. A lot of critical functionality is in plugins that aren't FOSS, such as the Python plugin and the Remote plugins (Container, SSH, etc.). I think you're also not able to (or not supposed to? unsure) access the official plugin directory with an open source build. I definitely appreciate that the core is open source, but using the open source version is less fun than it sounds. You really want to use the freeware proprietary VS Code to get a good experience. If we're going to be using a proprietary text editor anyways, then I wish Sublime Text and its community were still as active as they used to be.
- sli 6y agoI still use Sublime Text to this day because it's far and away the fastest option among these usuals, and I do most everything else in a terminal. VSCode is turning into the Chrome of free IDEs and I really don't like that direction at all. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I'm missing in Sublime, anyway.
- ensignavenger 6y agoUnfortunately more and more of Microsoft's VS Code extensions are going closed source.
- fortran77 6y agoI tried both and VS Code is a clear winner. I think Microsoft is keeping Atom around as a "consolation prize" to the people they acquired.
- astannard 6y agoI 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.
- bttrfl 6y agoI 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?
- xkeysc0re 6y agoSublime Text?
- bttrfl 6y agothanks, bookmarked.
- uneekname 6y agoSorry to be that guy, but vim might fit your needs well if you're ok with working in a terminal
- bttrfl 6y agoI'm afraid I'm a nano guy. Though, I have never given vim a chance so maybe I should spend an evening with it.
- yhoiseth 6y agoMaybe Nova if you’re on a Mac.
- bttrfl 6y agoThanks, but it looks like Nova does too many things to my liking.
- mistrial9 6y agosuch 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!
- Morizero 6y agoBrackets is released under the MIT license
- mistrial9 6y agoaha - so is it a call for FOSS community participation ? Is it worth packaging in Debian or other?
- skeeks 6y ago> 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/ https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/
- radihuq 6y agoBrackets was the first text editor I used. I remember being in grade 11 computer science class and wowing my friends with the live-reloading feature for HTML sites. Good times
- notapenny 6y agoThe live reload was so nice. Just click the icon and go, out of the box. It was also so fast it frequently made me forget I was typing in the html file and not on some content page directly.
- andreynering 6y agoThere's also a blog post about it: https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/ https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/
- ph2082 6y agoIDEs, Editors come and go. Programming language become hot and cold. Only thing guaranteed in life is Vim and Emacs.
- rambojohnson 6y agobye Felicia.
- taywrobel 6y agoNot the right forum for this type of shallow dismissal. Please be more substantive with comments or don’t comment at all.
- nye2k 6y agoI am a core Brackets user and have been since day 1, as a designer/animator that frequently needs to write code. I suspect that I'll continue to use it without support as it is, or possibly shift back to Sublime. I have always preferred Brackets as a simple visual editor that I can add/write small extensions as needed, without complicating the UI or process flow. I've tried many IDEs, used dreamweaver and BBEdit for years, tried to embrace VIM and EMACs, and found that even VSCode is more than I need. Maybe something like codeshare.io is the future of my market, taking hints from Figma?
- harg 6y agoI'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/ https://nova.app/ a try.
- professoretc 6y ago> I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently I think the devs are putting their effort into ST4 while unfortunately letting 3 somewhat languish. The same thing happened with the 2 -> 3 transition; 2 sat around without getting any updates for a long while, and then 3 was released.
- gherkinnn 6y agoI completely forgot about Brackets, despite having spent too many night shifts in it. And yet I’m kinda sad to see it go. What a joy it was to use back then.
- wilsonfiifi 6y agoOn the subject of ending/killing products, Adobe shouldn't have abandoned Fireworks. If they had no use for it, they should just have donated it to an open source foundation like they did with Flex. It was an awesome tool and easy to work with...
- hpen 6y agoI still think Sublime text is the best out there