So I've been doing pretty good learning HTML, CSS and Javascript. I love using my text editor VSCode and it's been a blast. I recently spoke to friend who told me that she is taking a course in school where they teach web design but they use Dreamweaver. It's been a while since I've heard of Dreamweaver and I just realized until now that I haven't even met anyone today that uses Dreamweaver for Web Dev. Lot's of people use Atom, Sublime, VSCode and so on.

So I have a few questions:

Does anyone still use Dreamweaver in their career?

Why do you prefer it over other text editors?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using it over other text editors?

I'm just intrigued to know why it has become some unpopular.

    Haven't used Dreamweaver in over a decade, and only used it grudgingly then in order to collaborate with front end people who relied on its WYSIWYG features because they lacked coding skills. I think the reason it has fallen out of use is due in part to the rise of smartphones and Responsive Web Design. Modern websites must work not just for desktop screens but also mobile screens and I believe (without any real proof) that modern developers tend to test their websites using actual browsers rather than relying on the WYSIWIG features of their IDE. I also think its built-in FTP features are perhaps less critical today because developers can rely on a tool like git to help deploy their code rather than trying to upload files one at a time via FTP. I also think websites today tend to be much more AJAX-driven and JS-heavy and developers tend to run a webserver on their local machine for testing, etc.

    I could be wrong, but I think a WYSIWYG editor seems antiquated. Rather than putting a bunch of effort into developing an HTML editor with a built-in rendering engine, I think modern developers are fortunate that the various different browsers have well-implemented and consistent JS & CSS engines and they can put their energy into testing the site using actual browsers and local web servers.

      I actually still have it installed on my machines, but haven't used it in a few years at this point. I never used the WYSIWYG functionality, but honestly kinda liked the IDE at the time. The company I worked for at the time was small, did brochure-type sites in WordPress, and didn't use any kinda of containerization, so the ftp functionality was great for us. We'd basically develop on the staging server - make a change locally, ftp the file up to the server, and refresh the browser. Now days I use VSCode with Docker to avoid the need to upload anything constantly. I'm also developing applications now, so that workflow just flat out wouldn't work anyway...

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