The venerable text editor is back on the Mac App Store, as noted by Zac Hall at 9to5Mac:
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The departure of BBEdit from the Mac App Store is yet another example of the platform’s limitations and it’s sad, but it’s probably for the best and everything will be okay. The Mac App Store isn’t meant for apps like TextExpander or BBEdit, and Apple doesn’t seem to be willing to change its underlying nature. BBEdit 12.6 Introduces App Sandboxing Ahead of Planned Mac App Store Launch Monday February 25, 2019 9:56 AM PST by Juli Clover BBEdit, the popular and long-running HTML and text editor for Mac.
BBEdit 12.6 in February introduced support for Sandboxing on the Mac, a major overhaul that secures how the app interacts with the operating system and other apps, which is a requirement for software distributed through the Mac App Store.
As we mentioned earlier this year, Bare Bones famously pulled BBEdit from the Mac App Store almost five years ago, but Apple announced at WWDC 2018 that BBEdit and other apps including Transmit and Microsoft Office would return or debut on the new Mac App Store.
Improvements to Sandboxing restrictions and other limitations have eased pain points for developers of complex apps like BBEdit.
The app is free to download, with a $3.99/month or $39.99/year subscription to unlock its full (and long) list of features after a 30-day trial. I love the release notes:
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BBEdit 12 features more than three hundred new features and refinements since the last Mac App Store release of BBEdit. 64-bit accelerated, Mojave ready with Dark Mode support, Git integration, and so much more.