It's referring to the "ubiquitous language" concept popularized by the Domain driven development (DDD) literature. The assumption is that in every business there is an existing language, i.e. a set of terms that refer to the business concepts and are used by all employees when taking about goods, processes and so on.
Developers should take care to elicit this language from their colleagues and use it in their code instead of using whatever terms come to their mind when they need to name things.
I didn't know this either! I once made an interactive dashboard and couldn't figure out how to add an on-click action to my SVG heat map. So I used the same coordinates that I used for the heat map to make a bunch of invisible divs on top of the SVG, and added on-click actions to those divs.
I’ve been using it for most of those years, and still use it every day. We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open them, while I happily regexed my way around extracting various data.
However, I reluctantly have to say that when working with TypeScript codebases specifically, I do feel the lack of IDE features for recognizing imports and cross-referencing symbols across files. Any other BBEdit diehards in this position? What have you ended up doing?
>We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open them, while I happily regexed my way around extracting various data
Way back with version 4 (I think), I used it to work on a CSV that was way larger than the amount of RAM I had in the computer. Amazingly responsive. Not that long ago I used it on some XML monstrosities that were pushing a gig in size. Still worked.
I still use it as my main environment today. Over the years you accumulate a variety of little snippets and scripts (in all sorts of languages, including AppleScript) and whatnot that help with your particular workflow. It's very much like a prettier, pointy-clickier version of Emacs in this way.
I really miss BareBones Mailsmith, which was like BBEdit for mail. In today's world where everybody uses HTML email (boo!), it wouldn't be so great, but man alive it was good.
