There was some justifiable concern in the community that power-tool apps like BBEdit may have a hard time making the Apple silicon transition as quickly as we’d like. In the spring of 2018, Bare Bones and Apple announced that, subsequent to the release of macOS Mojave (10.14) and the accompanying refresh of the Mac App Store, BBEdit would. There are several more new features, but the thing that stands out for me is Apple silicon support. Following BBEdits exit from the Mac App Store, we had many conversations with our customers, and with Apple, regarding the issues that we had encountered with the store. “Rescued Documents” - Have you ever brain farted and quit a document without saving? BBEdit can now save a list of documents closed without saving. I spoke to Rich Siegel about this, and he does a cool trick where it checks the server file date to make sure there are no conflicts.
Server Document Snapshots - If you are accessing documents on a server, now when you quit BBEdit, it will save a snapshot of server-based documents, so when you re-open it, things will go much faster. Bare Bones Software Releases Yojimbo, TextWrangler and BBEdit into the Mac App Store. Markdown Cheat Sheet - Just as they recently did with regular expressions, BBEdit also now has built-in tools to help you learn and implement Markdown. If you are getting it from the Mac App Store, it is still Intel-only until Apple allows developers to start distributing Apple silicon builds through the Mac App Store. Ready for Apple Silicon - If you get it from their website, it will be a universal build.
There is plenty to like in this new version: Yesterday Bare Bones released BBEdit, version 13.5.