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Does anyone remember brackets? I cant remember if brackets or atom came first but I remember switching from sublime to brackets to atom. Good times, I heard DHH

Does anyone remember brackets? I cant remember if brackets or atom came first but I remember switching from sublime to brackets to atom. Good times, I heard DHH is still using TextMate.

throw_m239339 4y ago
Brackets came first.
solarkraft 4y ago
I do, it was quite cool! What stuck most with me is the CSS color picker.
ketzo 4y ago
Did my first ever paid programming work in Brackets, helping some friends build a Wordpress blog. Good times.
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whywhywhywhy 4y ago
I still use Textmate, think it's actually excellent these days and still updated a few times a year. Spellcheck always works, nothing ever crashes and acts weird I run it for 10+ months without issue. VSCode on my PC the spell check is inconsistent and weird and on a long enough timeline it actually crashes the whole operating system if you leave it open.
ngc248 4y ago
I am still using brackets on the mac and I have to say very satisfied with it. I came from windows where notepad++ is unbeatable.
IncRnd 4y ago
I've used TextMate for a long time. It works great.
- ubermonkey 4y ago
  I was in TextMate all day every day for a long, long time but gradually shifted to Emacs, hilariously, AFTER I quit coding for a living -- because of OrgMode.
  - IncRnd 4y ago
    That is hilarious!
    - ubermonkey 4y ago
      Right? I mean, I tried to become an emacs person several times when I was still coding, and it just never took. My last phase of programming work was on OS X, so I had friendlier yet still capable options like TextMate, which made shifting to emacs a pretty hard ask. Then my job shifted to a point where my preferred method of tracking activites/tasks/notes was just falling apart. I was all-in on the GTD-inspired Omnifocus, but what I really wanted was a system where I could intermingle notes with Todo items, and then ask the system to collate a list of the Todos for me dynamically. Which, as it turns out, is pretty much a description of how OrgMode works. And, sadly, almost nothing else that I've found, and so I use emacs all the time now. My emacs expertise, though, is pretty limited to things I need to know to be productive with Org.
mjmsmith 4y ago
I still use TextMate, mainly for the excellent search & replace preview.
dangoor 4y ago
I worked on Brackets full time at Adobe. It came before Atom and had a bit of a different target (designers-who-code vs. developers in general). Brackets was great fun, but it too ultimately needed to be sunsetted. Brackets was the foundation of Adobe Edge Code, which was part of Creative Cloud, so there were some bigger plans there.
- niutech 4y ago
  Is it officially sunsetted? I can still see commits on Github: https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets Thank you for developing Brackets! I used it daily as a web dev, it had an awesome live preview feature.
  - dangoor 4y ago
    Oh, that's a good point about the sunsetting. In Brackets's case, Adobe left it active in the hands of the community. Live Preview in particular is one of the areas I had some fun working on. I worked out a way to do diff/patch to make it quickly and incrementally update the browser[1] [1]: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-Data-Structure https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-...
zikani_03 4y ago
Brackets was cool and will always be in my memory; made a close friend (who we eventually hired to become a co-worker) because I mentioned that I was working on a Brackets extension on a Facebook group.

Does anyone remember brackets? I cant remember if brackets or atom came first but I remember switching from sublime to brackets to atom. Good times, I heard DHH is still using TextMate.

throw_m239339 4y ago

Brackets came first.

solarkraft 4y ago

I do, it was quite cool! What stuck most with me is the CSS color picker.

ketzo 4y ago

Did my first ever paid programming work in Brackets, helping some friends build a Wordpress blog. Good times.

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whywhywhywhy 4y ago

I still use Textmate, think it's actually excellent these days and still updated a few times a year. Spellcheck always works, nothing ever crashes and acts weird I run it for 10+ months without issue. VSCode on my PC the spell check is inconsistent and weird and on a long enough timeline it actually crashes the whole operating system if you leave it open.

ngc248 4y ago

I am still using brackets on the mac and I have to say very satisfied with it. I came from windows where notepad++ is unbeatable.

IncRnd 4y ago

I've used TextMate for a long time. It works great.

ubermonkey 4y ago
I was in TextMate all day every day for a long, long time but gradually shifted to Emacs, hilariously, AFTER I quit coding for a living -- because of OrgMode.
- IncRnd 4y ago
  That is hilarious!
  - ubermonkey 4y ago
    Right? I mean, I tried to become an emacs person several times when I was still coding, and it just never took. My last phase of programming work was on OS X, so I had friendlier yet still capable options like TextMate, which made shifting to emacs a pretty hard ask. Then my job shifted to a point where my preferred method of tracking activites/tasks/notes was just falling apart. I was all-in on the GTD-inspired Omnifocus, but what I really wanted was a system where I could intermingle notes with Todo items, and then ask the system to collate a list of the Todos for me dynamically. Which, as it turns out, is pretty much a description of how OrgMode works. And, sadly, almost nothing else that I've found, and so I use emacs all the time now. My emacs expertise, though, is pretty limited to things I need to know to be productive with Org.

mjmsmith 4y ago

I still use TextMate, mainly for the excellent search & replace preview.

dangoor 4y ago

I worked on Brackets full time at Adobe. It came before Atom and had a bit of a different target (designers-who-code vs. developers in general). Brackets was great fun, but it too ultimately needed to be sunsetted. Brackets was the foundation of Adobe Edge Code, which was part of Creative Cloud, so there were some bigger plans there.

niutech 4y ago
Is it officially sunsetted? I can still see commits on Github: https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets Thank you for developing Brackets! I used it daily as a web dev, it had an awesome live preview feature.
- dangoor 4y ago
  Oh, that's a good point about the sunsetting. In Brackets's case, Adobe left it active in the hands of the community. Live Preview in particular is one of the areas I had some fun working on. I worked out a way to do diff/patch to make it quickly and incrementally update the browser[1] [1]: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-Data-Structure https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-...

zikani_03 4y ago

Brackets was cool and will always be in my memory; made a close friend (who we eventually hired to become a co-worker) because I mentioned that I was working on a Brackets extension on a Facebook group.