Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021

Not 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.<p>I am also surprised that Atom is still kicking and hasn’t done something similar<p>Was a great UI out of the box though I admit.

<p><pre><code> IDEs, Editors come and go. Programming language become hot and cold. Only thing guaranteed in life is Vim and Emacs.</code></pre>

VisualStudio Code is really taking over, at least in terms of the commercial world. I wonder if GitHub’s Atom is next.

I 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.

I’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&#x2F;or product&#x2F;market fit issues.

I&#x27;m a pretty happy VSCode user but I do find it pretty heavy and startup is pretty slow, even on my M1 Mac.<p>I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn&#x27;t received much dev input recently, although it is perfectly serviceable. The TypeScript experience is still a way off VSCode&#x27;s though and it would be nice to get an Apple Silicon build.<p>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.<p>Tempted to give <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nova.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nova.app&#x2F;</a> a try.

I am a core Brackets user and have been since day 1, as a designer&#x2F;animator that frequently needs to write code. I suspect that I&#x27;ll continue to use it without support as it is, or possibly shift back to Sublime.<p>I have always preferred Brackets as a simple visual editor that I can add&#x2F;write small extensions as needed, without complicating the UI or process flow.<p>I&#x27;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.<p>Maybe something like codeshare.io is the future of my market, taking hints from Figma?

Brackets 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

On the subject of ending&#x2F;killing products, Adobe shouldn&#x27;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...

such a strange juxtaposition -- on Github (was &quot;open source central&quot;), Adobe (commercial since day 0) announces BasicToolProduct is &quot;over&quot; ..<p>Please note, corporate discontinuation of software products is exactly why FOSS is not optional!

There&#x27;s also a blog post about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.brackets.io&#x2F;brackets-eol-notice&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.brackets.io&#x2F;brackets-eol-notice&#x2F;</a>

I completely forgot about Brackets, despite having spent too many night shifts in it. And yet I’m kinda sad to see it go.<p>What a joy it was to use back then.

I still think Sublime text is the best out there