The hover effect on the CTA is amazing.
Holy SHIT than's nice. The starfield background also moves based on your cursor position, dang.
When you click download it moves to warp speed!
Nova by Panic
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Re: Nova by Panic
#22I really like their pricing structure here. If you want updates forever, it's functionally a subscription (which makes sense - constant updates require constant dev work). The key difference is that if you stop paying, you keep everything you've paid for previously (the app and all past updates).
That's a _great_ way to do a subscription.
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#23It's so hard to target web development with how fragmented the ecosystem is, so it's nice to see they have a lot of extensions already.
That said, because of how fragmented the ecosystem is, it is difficult for me to jump in. For example, my main side project right now is a Vue app that uses SCSS syntax in components, which the Vue extension for Nova does not yet support. This might sound like a small detail, but it's a total dealbreaker - and while, if this was a totally open source editor, I might be interested in contributing to the extension, I can't say that I'm interested in paying $100 and then helping out. It's a very difficult chicken and egg situation.
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#24Man I'm still vim only. I've tried these giant IDE apps, but just can't wing it.
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#25Edit: I think my performance with the background is a super niche one. It runs fine in Microsoft Edge on my Windows install on a Macbook Pro 2015, but not on Chrome.
The animation is really cool especially that onscroll effect!
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#26Tries to connect to appcenter.ms at launch... is that just for extensions?
Crash reporting, formerly Hockey App but when acquired by Microsoft it became part of App Center.
Re: Nova by Panic
#27I really like their pricing structure here. If you want updates forever, it's functionally a subscription (which makes sense - constant updates require constant dev work). The key difference is that if you stop paying, you keep everything you've paid for previously (the app and all past updates). That's a _great_ way to do a subscription.
Sketch has the same subscription model.
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#28I love native Mac apps, I love Panic…but I’m not sure what this gets me over Visual Studio Code, besides a Preferences pane that isn’t inscrutable.
I’m not sure there’s enough of a market on the Mac for another commercial code editor, as we already have BBEdit for hard-core text wrangling. (And obviously all the open-source options.)
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#29Great to see the up-to-date pricing model find another high-profile adopter.
Subscriptions for non-service-based apps are terrible for customers, while major version upgrades make it hard for developers to plan around a steady revenue stream. Up-to-date models, as Panic has implemented with Nova, offer the best of both, with perpetual licenses for customers and a regular income stream for developers.
Re: Nova by Panic
#30I really like their pricing structure here. If you want updates forever, it's functionally a subscription (which makes sense - constant updates require constant dev work). The key difference is that if you stop paying, you keep everything you've paid for previously (the app and all past updates). That's a _great_ way to do a subscription.
intellij is functionally the same.
Buying a subscription gets you one year updates, and then whatever that last version is remains functional forever.