I worked on Brackets full time at Adobe. It came before Atom and had a bit of a different target (designers-who-code vs. developers in general). Brackets was great fun, but it too ultimately needed to be sunsetted.

Brackets was the foundation of Adobe Edge Code, which was part of Creative Cloud, so there were some bigger plans there.

I still use Textmate, think it's actually excellent these days and still updated a few times a year.

Spellcheck always works, nothing ever crashes and acts weird I run it for 10+ months without issue. VSCode on my PC the spell check is inconsistent and weird and on a long enough timeline it actually crashes the whole operating system if you leave it open.

Brackets was cool and will always be in my memory; made a close friend (who we eventually hired to become a co-worker) because I mentioned that I was working on a Brackets extension on a Facebook group.

I am still using brackets on the mac and I have to say very satisfied with it. I came from windows where notepad++ is unbeatable.

Did my first ever paid programming work in Brackets, helping some friends build a Wordpress blog. Good times.

I still use TextMate, mainly for the excellent search & replace preview.

I do, it was quite cool! What stuck most with me is the CSS color picker.

I've used TextMate for a long time. It works great.

Brackets came first.