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by dawnerd 1863 days ago
It's how I got my professional start too. It's code editor and file management was pretty nice for the time.
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Basically the winning feature was that the UX was essentially the same as Photoshop.

Slice up those PSDs and, WOW I can try coding it up myself and it kinda-sort looks-works the same as PS!

It was the exact tool Photoshop using website designers needed to up-skill smoothly.

Mine as well...in 2015, at a university that maintained lot of small-to-medium complexity websites. It did the job well and was easy to work with, even if I sometimes felt like was carving in my 1s and 0s with stone and chisel.

But if I were still working there I would probably replace most of the sites - which were largely abstractions of forms and tables - with something like power apps instead.

Still can't comprehend why we haven't had 'winforms' again but modern and not windows based.

Power Apps is good but not great.

Same reason people will spend thousands of hours working on libraries like pandas but won't make a better excel. Or something like that.