Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
3 days ago
I just checked, and it looks like I have been using BBEdit for almost 35 years (It was initially shareware).
Siegel still manages it (I don't know if he is still the main coder). He never sold out.
3 days ago
I just checked, and it looks like I have been using BBEdit for almost 35 years (It was initially shareware).
Siegel still manages it (I don't know if he is still the main coder). He never sold out.
It's been great software: reliably native, promptly releases updates with macOS changes (I had a retina-capable text editor before I had a retina display for my mac), and consistently updated to fix bugs. Some of the change log entries are impressively obscure.
I finally paid for my v15 upgrade ~2 weeks ago, so I wish I could take the credit for the v16 release. But given their long standing, generous policy of giving an updated license if you bought in the last N months (Nov 1st 2025 this time!), I'm actually in great shape and the meme falls very flat.