(you'll have to download the brackets repo too and put it inside the `brackets` folder)
Does anyone know more about how this came to be/what the plans are for the future?
Our original prototype ran completely in the browser using node.js for file i/o. So why did we take it out of the browser and focus on the desktop first? While we believe the future of development is heading towards the cloud, we found that many people are still looking for traditional desktop tools. By starting on he desktop and then supplementing with a cloud-based version, we hope to help transition developers to this new model, without asking them to give up what know and love.
Of course, it's not just about the cloud. Because we're developing on the open web platform, we can go wherever that platforms goes. While it's not our immediate focus we hope to build a version of Brackets optimized for tablets as well as an embedded version that could run inside existing web application.
Adobe has committed some of its best engineering talent to the project for the foreseeable future. If you check the activity on the repo, you'll see it's not a part-time side project. We have a long way to go before we would declare 1.0, but we think we can get there for the desktop version within the year.
I invite everyone to join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/brackets-dev) or pop in to Freenode IRC channel #brackets to chat w/ the development team.
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Adam Lehman Brackets Product Manager
I had just wondered last week if something nice like this existed.
Ace seems to be a better alternative for now and is entirely JS-based:
Not even a link to a static project description page (as far as I could tell)
I couldn't find a single picture with a quick browse through. (I know this is superficial) but no screenshot/screencast/videos is bad marketing and doesn't get me as excited about a project
I personally recommend Eclipse Orion[2], it's not as stylish as Brackets but is fully functional and you can even import repositories from github.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/7Wa6p.png
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/getstarted.php (choose "Download and Install Orion on your localhost")
The design is also in its early stages, and changes quite often.
Ill see if we can get some current screenshots up, or even some of the design docs for what the team is aiming for. (there are also some posted below).
Update :
The team just added a page with some screenshots: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Brackets-Screenshots
(full disclosure : i work for adobe)
Why is that good? Eclipse is built in Java, and it's janky.
I think Ace (part of Cloud9) looks nicer and as far as I could tell, did everything Orion does. It also will import Git repos. Did you find anything that Orion does particularly well or better than besides Git repos?
But yeah, if you appreciate beauty, certainly going with cloud9 is the obvious choice.
I don't mean to nitpick, I'm working on something similar to these (with some important differences) and I would like to pick the "best" core editor. Like I said, is there anything else that Orion does better? I don't care about appearance, they're basically all customizable to an extent that they can be made it look identical. And for the most part, they all seem to support the same features (obviously CodeMirror is missing things like Git repos because it's only the browser-side of things)
