Long-awaited. Enjoyed Coda for a long time, then switched to Atom. It looks like a polished Atom version, and Nova is likely going to replace Atom for me.
Why? (asking curiously). I used some version of Jetbrains, then Goland, then Atom.
Nova by Panic
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going for Swift means competing with XCode, which wouldn't make sense as Swift is generally used along with the entire iOS/macOS Dev tools (Simulators, UI Builders, Device Manager etc). Not a wise thing to do.
It's the same for VSCode and JS/TS support though. Fighting against a fully featured, free, open-source and well-established product just on the basis of speed is going to be an uphill battle.
Especially because TS and VSC already move at blazing speeds.
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#183> It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: [...] a Minimap Do people actually find the Minimap useful for coding? If so, how? And why is it better/different than just a scrollbar, or searching? I've always thought of Minimaps as a thing that seems like it should be adding something to the interface, but actually isn't at all. Seems like pointless eye-candy, to me. What am I missing?
I love my minimap, not because it's useful to me at all, but because it looks so freakin COOL
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#184> It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: [...] a Minimap Do people actually find the Minimap useful for coding? If so, how? And why is it better/different than just a scrollbar, or searching? I've always thought of Minimaps as a thing that seems like it should be adding something to the interface, but actually isn't at all. Seems like pointless eye-candy, to me. What am I missing?
Back in my Windows development days I used to LOVE Rock Scroll.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx
It made the scrollbar a literal screenshot of the code.
Re: Nova by Panic
#185Adding support for Go(lang)?
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Emacs for 10 years. When I started writing JS almost exclusively at my current job, I switched finally to VSCode (albeit with emacs keybindings). The plugin/extension experience between emacs and vscode is, of course, almost an apples to oranges comparison. But VSCode is much better in that regard in my opinion. I want yak-free IDE. After ten years my Emacs config is a herd of beautifully shaved yaks. VSCode i…
What does yak refer to? Is it a reference to gnu?
It refers to yak-shaving, which often manifests as pointless tinkering with meaningless config files.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm sure there's a VSC plugin for that This part of your comments nails 100% why, for me (web developer, 90% in typescript these days), it's nearly impossible to justify paying for an IDE. Visual Studio code has almost everything that I need, and what it's not baked in, is easily done with a plug-in, which in the worst case I can write myself. But that's really a worst case scenario, since to this date it has never…
I almost agree; but in my experience, JetBrains IDEs are worth every cent. I am more productive on them than in Visual Studio Code, even for "simple" tasks, like raw HTML/CSS/JS editing.
100% agree. Honestly at this point, I find disagreement that it's objectively better for professional development a great developer maturity index.
Shitting on tools because you read a couple disgruntled comments about indexing without honestly evaluating the tool yourself says a lot.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like Panic’s products a lot, particularly Transmit, but for something I use day in and day out to write code, munge datasets to solve production incidents, build and run code, etc., I can’t imagine improving upon a terminal with vim and standard Unix utils. I’m not a total console-chauvinist, I use a GUI email client. But every time I’ve tried any IDE or graphical editor like this, no matter how customizable it is,…
Have you tired IDEA (or siblings)? They focus on keyboard shortcuts and offer much more than vi can offer (full, integrated static analysis across with numerous languages and numerous context-sensitive tools like SSH, SCP, DB connectivity, etc). I use IDEA and feel absolutely crippled and useless in vi. It's largely because I never use vi and don't care to learn it. I'm very impressed with the IDEA tooling. There's a…
I think that depends what language you're using. IDEA is a must for Java, but vim with ccls works great for me on C/C++ projects and clion doesn't seem to do more there.
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#189Ah yes. Nova, the team that sent me the most pompous “rejection email” I’ve ever had for a product.
“You weren’t randomly chosen for the Nova Private beta”
“After six months, our Nova Private Beta is gradually drawing to a close. Unfortunately, we had far more people apply to test than we could reasonably accept as testers.
We’re sorry to report that you were not randomly chosen for testing this time.”
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's such a great story that's equally well-told. I think that story is what turned me on to Panic in general. Their blog was a must-read for me for years.
If you haven't seen it already, you will love this video by Cabel Sasser: https://youtu.be/8ZXWdR7RzV8 Cabel, and Panic in general, are true heroes of mine.
Oh, cool—check out the player that pops up if you hit "Play Now" on an episode!