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Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by sixstringtheory »

sjwright wrote: post #288
twic wrote: post #249

> We don't have built-in diff yet, but it's on our list! Fair enough - a good diff view has a lot of subtleties. One of the things i love about IntelliJ is having access to most of the normal editing tools in the diff view. If i'm reviewing my changes for a commit and i realise a method name could be improved, i can refactor-rename it right there. For some reason, possibly just keybindings, i can't use the broader se…

I haven't found a diff tool for macOS that is as good as WinMerge from fifteen years ago. Kaleidoscope is fairly close but you still can't merge individual lines from a block of changes, and you can't make up for it with manual free-form editing of the text. Sometimes I want to perform the merge by copying and pasting segments myself. Sometimes I want to fix up indentation after merging.

Heavy Kaleidoscope user here. You can definitely edit the text in the merge column, I've had to do it many times for exactly what you're describing!

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by samatman »

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to answer the only question I have, which is how they handle syntax highlighting.

I'm going to assume they support .tmLanguage, because it's the de facto standard.

Do they support .sublime-syntax? If they do, I'm interested, if not, well, I'd circle back if they add it, but lack of support is a deal-breaker for my use case.

More generally, it's a great splash page, but it doesn't appear to link into extensive documentation, and that's not a good sign. Should be right there on the top bar. This is a tool I'd spend hours of my life a day in, and every text editor in existence is an immensely complex beast which requires good documentation.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by scarlac »

starik36 wrote: post #142
AJRF wrote: post #117

I am so confused why they didn't put efforts into making this an iPad app. There is a market for something like this that developers are crying out for, but on mac why would anyone use this over VSCode (and pay $99 for the privilege?)

Does anyone seriously want to develop on the iPad?

To straight up answer your question: Yes, I have friends who really like the iPad so much and wants to do development on it. Will it practically work? I really don't know. Until I see Xcode and/or Docker on iOS/iPadOS I am not very hopeful.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by runawaybottle »

johnknowles wrote: post #208

Anyone else tired of this underlying form for IDEs? I get why the side toolbars make sense, from a space efficiency perspective, but the amount of information to take in is always overwhelming from a zoomed-out perspective, considering the whole app window. Why do app designers continue to force us to select what to focus on amongst a sea of visual stimulation? Make it hidden by default, and appear only when we want…

IDE devs can copy a thing or two from all the distraction free writing tools (which have gone too far), balance is key.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by laqq3 »

gruez wrote: post #220
TAForObvReasons wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was some confusion, and I'm not sure if they changed policy, but IntelliJ gave you a perpetual license for the version on the day you purchased it, not the last version at the end of the support contract

Why is this being downvoted? He’s right. > When purchasing an annual subscription, you will immediately get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

Though it is made slightly (?) better for the fact that if you for 12 month consecutively, then your fallback license is upgraded to the version 12 months ahead.

(That is, the next sentence in the bit you quoted is:)

> You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

While this editor looks very nice I'm still confused on why I would use this over sublimetext or vscode. It doesn't try to contrast at all just lists a bunch of features that I already have in other editors.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by runawaybottle »

starik36 wrote: post #142
AJRF wrote: post #117

I am so confused why they didn't put efforts into making this an iPad app. There is a market for something like this that developers are crying out for, but on mac why would anyone use this over VSCode (and pay $99 for the privilege?)

Does anyone seriously want to develop on the iPad?

I could see myself doing light drafts or a few Leetcode problems, or toying with an api on it. Nothing heavy.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by RussianCow »

ildon wrote: post #104
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…

> 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…

> it's nearly impossible to justify paying for an IDE.

The reason I pay for IntelliJ IDEA is exactly the fact that I don't have to install any plugins, or fiddle with config settings, or really do much of anything; the product works extremely well out of the box with all of the IDE features I would ever want (and then some). The last time I seriously tried VS Code[0], I felt like I was constantly trying different plugins and changing various settings in order to get it working the way I want, and many of them weren't quite as polished as what I get immediately with IntelliJ.

[0]: Admittedly, this was over a year ago, so it's possible things have improved. But I'd rather pay $89/year than spend the time to find out.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #306

While this editor looks very nice I'm still confused on why I would use this over sublimetext or vscode. It doesn't try to contrast at all just lists a bunch of features that I already have in other editors.

They answered that in the first line of the page

> native Mac code editor

Looks much more native and likely faster than electron based editors like vscode or Atom.

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