Comment by geon

In the late 90s I used notepad. Mostly writing plain html. Then in the early, 2k I wrote php in Crimson. http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

When switching to mac in 2009, I used Smultron. https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

Followed by sublime text. Then when I started writing typescript in 2016 or so, I switched to vscode.