Meet the developer: Rich Siegel

1 · Apple · March 27, 2020, 11:47 a.m.
Why BBEdit creator Rich Siegel has always put the user above all.BBEdit may be one of the most beloved developer tools on any platform, but its creator, Rich Siegel, had relatively modest ambitions. He started writing the first version of the software back in 1989 because he needed an editor that could handle “large” files—something north of 32 KB. “One of the limitations of Macintosh Pascal was that source files couldn’t be more than 32 kilobytes,” he explains. Over a quarter century has passe...