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I started using BB Edit way back in the day, and at the time the price was pretty reasonable, like $50 or so. I asked another developer once why he preferred Te
by butterfi 15y ago
I started using BB Edit way back in the day, and at the time the price was pretty reasonable, like $50 or so. I asked another developer once why he preferred TextMate to BB Edit and he said that BB Edit was too expensive. I went to look and to my shock the price had gone up to over $100. I think Bare Bones pretty effectively locked out a whole group of younger programmers, despite offering the free TextWrangler edition.
- podperson 15y agoTextWrangler is perfectly adequate. Just by having undo that works properly it's more useful than TextMate for a lot of tasks. I agree BBEdit is expensive.
- cormullion 15y agoCurrently $40. It's also on the Mac App store, although that version is slightly crippled, for some bizarre reason known only to Steve Jobs.
- alwillis 15y agoNot having apps install command line tools is a reasonable security compromise for the Mac App store. Anyone who buys BBEdit from the app store can use BareBones’s installer to install the command line stuff: http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/cmd-line-tools.html http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/cmd-line-tools.html.
- alwillis 15y agoBareBones is running an intro special—BBEdit 10 is available for $39.99 for new purchases until October 19, 2011. Existing BBEdit users can also upgrade at this price. More details at http://barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_pricing.html http://barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_pricing.html