It's nice to see some love for BBEdit. I confess that I use VS Code for programming more often, but I'm a technical writer, and I almost always use BBEdit for my work. The other day I had to do a task that boiled down to "recursively search for all files in this directory that do NOT contain the following text, then in the result set, run the following regex-based search and replace." In BBEdit, this is essentially a two-step operation (the first search, then a "text factory" with the regex search-and-replace that used the search result window as the input). I'm sure there are other editors that could do that same operation, but I have doubts how many could do it as easily.
Really, if I could bring a couple of the more "IDE-esque" bits over from Code (most notably language-sensitive smart indent, something I'm boggled Bare Bones hasn't broken down and added yet), I'd probably just stick with BBEdit full time still.
Really, if I could bring a couple of the more "IDE-esque" bits over from Code (most notably language-sensitive smart indent, something I'm boggled Bare Bones hasn't broken down and added yet), I'd probably just stick with BBEdit full time still.