BBEdit was a very good replacement for MPW and Think C's front ends that pretty much everybody bought and used daily. Then CodeWarrior came along and it wasn't really that impressive anymore; still useful for the odd "gremlin" zap or gigantic, bloated folder grep that choked everything else you threw at it back when virtual memory was an aftermarket feature you had to buy from Connectix, but by and large it just sat there on your drive most of the year. It enjoyed a brief resurgence in popularity when Project Builder was forced upon everyone at Apple and folks grew tired of dealing with an impossibly bloated text editor that couldn't keep up with an average 13 year old's typing speed. A lot of teams with the clout to do so simply refused to touch any of the NeXT junk so they didn't have to bother with getting BBEdit to play nicely with PB--the Finder in particular remained a PowerPlant app built in CodeWarrior up through 10.4 I believe.
If your notion of web development is rooted in cgi-bin directories, server-side includes or maybe PHP 2 then BBEdit is more than adequate for your needs. It stopped being practical for anything "modern" anyone would ever want to do around 2005. You can argue that "modern" web development has gotten well out-of-hand and that you shouldn't really need all those ridiculous plugins to accomplish the basic task of putting a blob of HTML on a screen but that doesn't alter the reality of the transpiler quagmire we've let the Facebook kids drag us into one DockerCon at a time.
BBEdit's primary use case these days is giving John Gruber something to romanticize to hipsters who read books about LaserWriters. Blah blah blah Markdown blah blah blah my kids will die if they see a carton of milk on a billboard blah blah blah James Bond marketshare blah blah blah blah blah. The Simpsons shouldn't have lasted 30 years and neither should any piece of software.
If your notion of web development is rooted in cgi-bin directories, server-side includes or maybe PHP 2 then BBEdit is more than adequate for your needs. It stopped being practical for anything "modern" anyone would ever want to do around 2005. You can argue that "modern" web development has gotten well out-of-hand and that you shouldn't really need all those ridiculous plugins to accomplish the basic task of putting a blob of HTML on a screen but that doesn't alter the reality of the transpiler quagmire we've let the Facebook kids drag us into one DockerCon at a time.
BBEdit's primary use case these days is giving John Gruber something to romanticize to hipsters who read books about LaserWriters. Blah blah blah Markdown blah blah blah my kids will die if they see a carton of milk on a billboard blah blah blah James Bond marketshare blah blah blah blah blah. The Simpsons shouldn't have lasted 30 years and neither should any piece of software.