Macos bbedit1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() "It's always there, and one of the reasons we continue putting a significant focus on creating a good user manual. The biggest one, I think, remains the intrinsic conflict between discoverability and complication," Siegel says. ![]() "Over BBEdit's 30-year (so far) history, we've always had to balance the needs of diverse users so there are always challenges. We asked Siegel if there have been challenges in developing the editor for different types of users over the years. ![]() "But the Apple Developer Center, Tech Talks, and one-on-one sessions caught my eye as healthy for the entire ecosystem, non-trivial leaps forward generally and they certainly should make the apps better not worse." Can BBEdit appeal to other, new users?Īt the time of writing, BBEdit 14.5 was in testing, showcasing a new feature for working with live log files, and better Multi-File search – alongside other benefits. However, Siegel rounded up his primary takeaways. Do you have any idea how many times I could have used those in the last 30 years?" "I think they're doing them now in 11 countries, and even multiple languages, to drill down into issues, even adding one-on-one sessions. Also, I think the new online Tech Talks are quite impressive," Siegel exclaims. That's huge because there are going to be times putting heads together to solve challenges that need a laboratory. "One such example, the new Apple Developer Center right on site near Apple headquarters is a tremendous development. We asked Siegel about any specific improvements that he acknowledged at WWDC. ![]() Through that unique lens, there were some very interesting developer announcements (beyond moving Swift forward) which, I think, bode well for the ecosystem – and a better experience for end-users." "Undoubtedly because developers rely on BBEdit, our lens may be uniquely tuned to the tools developers use. It's a slightly different angle," Siegel clarifies. A colleague of mine used the term 'API-palooza.' But what really caught our eye was more about the ecosystem as a whole. "This year was quite packed with announcements. Of course, new hardware is always welcome since that improves everyone's productivity." BBEdit and WWDC 2022Īpart from the M2 chip and macOS improvements, we asked Siegel if there was anything else that could work for BBEdit in the future. "Thus, performance and stability improvements in macOS are more likely to catch our attention. "Because of the high value our customers place on being able to rely on BBEdit as a tool, I think that macOS stability takes on a greater significance to us than it might otherwise," Siegel acknowledges. Siegel concedes that it is stability on macOS that has encouraged him and the team at Bare Bones in recent years. "This often includes things that aren't necessarily 'marquee' announcements, such as performance and stability improvements in core OS components." That said, anything in mac OS that benefits our customers is relevant to our interests," Siegel explains. "The improvements of the M2 over the M1 are certainly closer to a home run than a single. We asked Siegel if, from a developer's perspective, this announcement – or any other – was particularly energizing. One of the big announcements at WWDC 2022 was the arrival of the M2 chip, Apple's custom silicon chip for its products. Thus, our audience has broadened, rather than changed." The next frontier of M2 So the evolution that we've been observing in more recent years is that more writers, data scientists, librarians, engineers, and scholars across many disciplines are using BBEdit in different ways. So has he been surprised by any of the myriad way users have utilized BBEdit across the years? "Our audience generally changes more with the times than it does with the Mac platform itself. "For example, when HTML exploded on the scene, what drove our product development was what our customers were trying to get done." Certainly, the increased popularity of Macs has had an impact, but where silicon would absolutely impact AR, games, production, etc., for manipulating text, it's a bit more about changing times," Siegel says. What's changing is what folks are working on – as opposed to what hardware they use to accomplish the work. "That being said, we've seen things a little differently. "That's an interesting question, and I can see why one might look at changes over time through a lens of macOS hardware and software advances," Siegel ponders. After all, in between, you've got thirty years of big changes in the Apple product line, from both a hardware and a software perspective. We wondered if Siegel noted any major differences between the era of BBEdit's debut in 1993 and today. ![]()
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