Adobe discontinued Brackets, and the main loser has been the Linux user

Brackets not for Linux

This is not new news, but it has caught me by surprise. A few weeks ago, when someone I work with recommended software for editing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, he mentioned two: brackets and Visual Studio Code. The former was mentioned earlier because it seems easier for beginners, but he prefers and recommends moving to Visual Studio Code as soon as possible. I've never used Brackets, and maybe that's why I've been somewhat out of touch with its news, but it no longer exists as such.

La Official Site it's still available, but what's there is no longer the real Brackets. It is a fork, that is, the community has decided to continue with a project that Adobe, the original developer, has discontinued a long time ago. For that reason, if we search for “brackets” on Snapcraft, Flathub, the WebUpd8 repository or in AUR, what we find is v1.14.1 at most, when the most up-to-date thing in brackets.io is the v2.0.1 installer.

The "death" of Brackets has a reason: an agreement between Adobe and Microsoft

Adobe and Microsoft signed an agreement, a society about which details are not known, but which has ended with the first recommending using the editor of the second, and discontinuing Brackets, which had a relatively large number of users/fans. And, as we mentioned, it is not something new; end of support came on September 1, 2021, at which point Adobe stopped developing the software and released its first Fork, originally called "Brackets Continued." Right now they have kept the original name and website, and they already have an installer for v2.0.1 of the editor.

The bad thing, and as the headline says, is that, as usual, the most affected are the Linux users. The installer exists for Windows and macOS, but not for Linux. There is not even a DEB package, which is what we usually find on any web page in the “Linux” section. We don't know if it will be like this forever or if they will release something for us at some point, but right now we don't have anything higher than v1.14.1 of the editor available.

Meanwhile, and as a user of Visual Studio Code, I recommend the same as Adobe: change the editor. At first it seems more complicated, but in Linux we can install it in different types of packages and even on the Raspberry Pi. Either that or be patient and hope that the community remembers Linux at some point, which might as well. At the moment, there is phoenix editor, based on Brackets and available from a web browser, but many features are disabled.


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  1.   Diego German Gonzalez said

    Adobe's business (which was never interested in Linux) is to sell subscription to its tools. It doesn't make sense for me to support a product that competes with Dreamweaver. Microsoft sells operating systems and solutions for the cloud and needs applications. It makes all the sense in the world to provide a free tool.

  2.   nachete said

    Nor is it a tragedy; As you mentioned, for Linux there is the VSCodium editor but there is also ATOM, SublimeText and for PCs with few resources Bluefish.

    Those of Adobe who do what they want but editors, if there are any.

  3.   Devformatic said

    Well, I never used brackets professionally, but it was a good editor, I'm sorry that I couldn't follow the project, the fork isn't a bad idea, but it doesn't have an installer because for GNU/Linux it's a bit worrying, I don't know what happens with these companies don't think about their users, now we have to stay with an old version so we can maybe use the editor. Although there are better free software editors, but many are looking for autocomplete and plugins that automate functions, shortcuts that make us more productive, we have editors like Emacs and Vim that are very good, but those that are half simple are the blueFish web editor, and one that I use to program my programs and projects outside the anjuta that seems light and extensible for what I use it for, but perhaps those new ones don't feel comfortable and want something more Fashionable. Like VSCode.