It revved System 7 to 8 to 9, then to Unix across now 15 major releases (from 10.0 to 10.14). Apple switched from Motorola 680×0 processors to PowerPC to Intel chips, from 32-bit to 64-bit code, and among supported coding languages. The longevity of indie apps is more extraordinary when you consider the changes Apple put the Mac through from the early 1990s to 2018. As it turns out, BBEdit is one of several apps that’s been around the block more than a few times. With all the twists and turns across more than two decades of Apple as a company, Mac hardware, and the underlying operating system, you might think that BBEdit stands alone as a continuously-developed app shepherded largely or exclusively by the same independent developer-an app without a giant company behind it. It seems like it was only yesterday that I first used BareBones Software’s BBEdit, but in actuality, yesterday is so far away-25 years, in fact.
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