Well, consider me not surprised: Update about Edge Tools and Services. If you have no idea what this is about, then I'm not surprised. A few years ago, Adobe released an incredible set of web tools called the Edge suite. This included a responsive design tool (Edge Reflow), a web animation tool (Edge Animate), a mobile testing tool (Edge Inspect), and an editor (Edge Code), a 'branded' version of Brackets. Brackets was already on life support* (Update from the Adobe Brackets Team) so it isn't too surprising to see the rest of the web related stuff get killed off as a well.
Again - not surprising - but certainly disappointing. The Edge tools were incredibly cool. Small, light-weight, useful to both developers and designers alike, and a big change from what Adobe normally did. I loved talking about them to audiences and it was a great initiative, especially along with the rest of the stuff Adobe was doing regarding to web. I can remember attending conferences and hearing folks in the web community praise Adobe - typically with a bit of surprise - for what they were doing to help people working on the web.
A lot of good will was earned - rightly so - and it has simply been thrown away. Truly disappointing. I'm sure there were valid business reasons for this - developers especially are pretty cheap - but I think there is value in good will that can be (almost) as good as profit.
- To be fair, Brackets isn't on life-support, just a temporary hiatus. But development has slowed down quite a bit. Personally, performance for me has been really bad (but it may just be the extensions I use as I don't see others having the issues I do) to the point where I switched to Atom, and then Visual Studio Code, and I've had much better luck since then. Every time a new version comes out I check it out, but I pretty much only use Brackets now when I need to fix a reported bug with one of my extensions.
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Raymond, Do you think that Adobe is moving more towards design and multimedia and away from application development tools? Maybe I'm wrong, but it sure seems like the priority is shifting that way.
Well, they have always had a huge investment in design. The Edge stuff was great imo because it appealed to *both* design and dev.