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I'm the author of Pingendo. Which is this "similar atom project" you mention ?

not sure if he is talking about this - https://github.com/atom

Sorry got pingendo mixed up with the pinegrow devs pushing their 100$ software around here when there are great alternatives such as this. Sorry for the trolling. I'll delete my comment once I'm on a desktop. Question where is the "pin" in these bootstrap editors names coming from?

http://pinegrow.com, now that you mention it :)

Pine in Pinegrow comes from Pine trees and no code comes from Atom. Besides Bootstrap, PG also supports Foundation, plain HTML, converting HTML pages to WordPress themes, master pages, smart components etc and aims to be a kind of modern Dreamweaver replacement.

And sorry that you feel offended by my kids having to eat.

Not offended your kids have to eat but does it have to be filet mignon every night? I'd gladly charge $20-$40 on my card for software anyone can easily get the source for and unlock the saving functionality but I feel like I have to pay $100 because half of you user WILL just steal it. Wrap some security around it and prove the business will be around for a few years and if I missed the boat and still hate front end work then I guess I'll have to pay. But it's a free world charge what you want and I'll stick to firebug.

early adopter of pinegrow here. I even bought multiple licenses early on, just to support them. It's become a critical part of my work now. And it's pretty affordable. Any software isn't going to be worth it if you don't find use out of it or use something else. But I'd be quite unhappy if I didn't have pinegrow to work on UI at my current job. I love how easy it is to copy and delete objects and I build screens for stakeholders (and then devs to work on)

firebug / chrome dev tools are great, I still use them along side pinegrow, but they aren't pinegrow. And pinegrow doesn't do everything perfect. I will ocassionally open up the same files I'm working in pinegrow inside a code editor for more robust tools, BUT pinegrow has been excellent to work visually on some of the mindnumbing things I'd have to do in code if I didn't have it.

Pinegrow starts at $49 and has been around for two years since 1.0 release. Makes me so happy that I'm my own boss and don't have to prove anything to a person like you :)

So, thanks to your comment, I learned that pinegrow exists. I'm completely impressed. It's clearly a non-trivial amount of work put into a pretty solid-looking package. Why are you so offended by a piece of software asking to be purchased?

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