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Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by dylan604 »

izolate wrote: post #45
dylan604 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different worlds. I would have called it the download button. By chance are you in the marketing world?

Or just a frontend developer.

Yikes! That's too close to the user for my liking. I'll stay in the shadows in the backend

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by jakelazaroff »

SirHound wrote: post #11

I've been using the beta version of Nova for a few weeks now and I've almost used my trial period for the 1.0. As a TypeScript developer, if someone made me choose between paying $99 for the actually-free VS Code, or buy Nova, I would by VS Code without hesitation. Before it began getting long in the tooth I was a big Coda fan. On the whole I like VS Code but I do suffer the occasional runaway process so I am open-mi…

> The default editing experience is lightweight, and that's a good thing. But the plugin story is dire. Plugins like ESLint and Prettier crash constantly, requiring an app restart. Prettier has a format-on-save behaviour that seems to format after save on some file types. Typescript cmd-click definitions are broken, cmd-click import filepaths are broken.

This is all fair. I've been using the beta on and off, and so far it hasn't compelled me to switch from VS Code yet. But this is a 1.0, and Panic has a pretty great stellar track record — I can see them closing the gap pretty quickly.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by hrktb »

threatofrain wrote: post #3

It's strange that Nova would target web tech as their top priority, and not Swift. If you're Mac-exclusive, why not advertise top-class support for Apple ecosystem app development? Since Nova is prioritizing web workflows, VSC is the elephant in the room and a very deadly competitor. It's free and open source, it's available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, and it can also be ported to the web. And it's Insanely popular and…

I wonder if they have a plan to move to iPad their codebase after it’s battle tested. There’s a lack of a serious editor over there, and in particular VS Code can’t compete because of it’s business model.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by curiouser2 »

yesimahuman wrote: post #41
esaym wrote: post #24

Man I'm still vim only. I've tried these giant IDE apps, but just can't wing it.

You're getting downvoted but a legitimate question is if vim binding support is coming or is even possible in the extension framework? VS Code vim binding support is very buggy and breaks frequently, but otherwise works well. I could see myself switching if vim bindings were better on this because I think the sweet spot of editors is a nice GUI/project tree/etc. with vim bindings.

It's worth checking out if the Neovim VScode plugin[1] works for your workflow. It's not as mature, but was much smoother when I tested it out. I'm not able to make the change until they implement a "toggle vim mode" command available... but once they do I'll jump. Also check out Onivim[2]

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia... 2: https://www.onivim.io/

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by mtmail »

josefresco wrote: post #47

On another note, how was Panic able to get a registered trademark for "Nova"?

Serial number 88490818 at https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-...

"IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Downloadable web site development software; Downloadable computer software development tools"

I guess the trademark it's very specific and not in conflict with let's say a model of a car. But also other companies can challenge the trademark later if they deem it in conflict with theirs.

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