But seriously, BBEdit IMO beats out VSCode for speed and stability by a mile if you're a macOS user. And you're supporting a much smaller company than Microsoft.
I've been using BBEdit since the first release and I would never trade it for VSCode. They are totally different beasts to me. VSCode has been ridiculously stable for me and, as far as I can recall, has never crashed or lost a single line of source code. VSCode's speed has never been an issue, as it is ALWAYS open all the time, lol. I restart to update it and that is that.
On the other hand, BBEdit is always open as well, performing totally different tasks. These days, I use it mainly as a persistent note taker and text munger. I will definitely be looking to test the new "Notes Window" functionality!
Both great tools, open 24x7 on my dev mac.
Unfortunately it doesn’t stick if there’s an update but it solves the problem temporarily.
edit: typo
How? I just download it, an the icon looks totally fine to me.
Also, BBEdit is really old. Having it change its name to suit modern fashions is about as desirable as having Emacs do the same.
I was kinda responding to an ancestor comment with that statement.
> Bad colors. Bad shapes. Idk. It looks old, probably because it is. But plenty of old companies have modernized their logos in a pleasant way.
Modernization is often a regression. Looking at the icons in my apps folder, there are way too many seemingly standard-size circles differentiated by a little color or a less-prominent icon, and most of the rest are a standard-size squares with similar characteristics. It's like if the alphabet was all O's, but with different colors and small diacritics. IMHO, "modern" UIs tend far too much towards indistinguishably in order to achieve a "unified" look, which looks good in a quick demo but is detrimental to daily use.
However, the ultimate mistake is Apple's, for creating a text-free dock that makes the icons do too much work. And of course, Apple's mistakes must be copied by everyone else, because they're so good at marketing (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).