Your comment makes me think you aren't very familiar with BBEdit, or how capable it is.
I personally don't use it for programming, but I do use it for certain text processing tasks; dealing with malformed international text encodings, converting bank CSV downloads to sane UTF-8 and stripping bullshit, editing HTML, and certain other one-off tasks that it's especially well suited to.
Even so, however, more shipping code has been written in BBEdit than will likely ever be written in Sublime Text, unless Jon Skinner gets back to work and stays extremely focused until 2035.
As for Textmate, I certainly haven't been a fan of it historically[1], but it gradually and grudgingly won me over in 2014. I don't tend to attach myself to editors, but I just found myself reaching for TM2 more, and ST3 less, over the course of the year. Frequent improvements are good, but fast resolution to bugs is perhaps even better.
And I personally think it has tremendous advantages over Textmate 1.x, not the least of which is being able to edit the text I need to edit [1 also].
>I personally don't use it for programming, but I do use it for certain text processing tasks; dealing with malformed international text encodings, converting bank CSV downloads to sane UTF-8 and stripping bullshit, editing HTML, and certain other one-off tasks that it's especially well suited to.
I've used BBEdit (and TextWrangler) for lots of years. For those kind of tasks it's fine (and better than ST).
It's not a good programming editor though.
>Even so, however, more shipping code has been written in BBEdit than will likely ever be written in Sublime Text, unless Jon Skinner gets back to work and stays extremely focused until 2035.
That's just because BBEdit was out there longer. More shipping code has been written on some horrible Windows editors too, but that doesn't make them good.
I personally don't use it for programming, but I do use it for certain text processing tasks; dealing with malformed international text encodings, converting bank CSV downloads to sane UTF-8 and stripping bullshit, editing HTML, and certain other one-off tasks that it's especially well suited to.
Even so, however, more shipping code has been written in BBEdit than will likely ever be written in Sublime Text, unless Jon Skinner gets back to work and stays extremely focused until 2035.
As for Textmate, I certainly haven't been a fan of it historically[1], but it gradually and grudgingly won me over in 2014. I don't tend to attach myself to editors, but I just found myself reaching for TM2 more, and ST3 less, over the course of the year. Frequent improvements are good, but fast resolution to bugs is perhaps even better.
And I personally think it has tremendous advantages over Textmate 1.x, not the least of which is being able to edit the text I need to edit [1 also].
[1]: http://masonmark.com/mother-fuck-textmate-to-hell/