Nova by Panic

Post by monadic2 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:07 AM UTC

mooman219 wrote: post #205

Brendinooo wrote: post #2

> Here's a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple's text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. Not only did this fix the bugs, but it also boosted our editor's performance. We're not messing around! Seems like there's nobody better than Panic at doing this sort of thing. They're willing to push Apple's UI forward, but t…

"Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch". I would be pessimistic of the magnitude of this statement. I do a significant amount of text engine work and I'm skeptical what they implied by this. The likely case is they glued together other solutions (Like HarfBuzz/FreeType/etc) and expose their own API on top of that. This is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged for accessibility reasons. It may be that C…

Post by xfer » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:12 AM UTC

finnh wrote: post #223

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VIM can do this with a language server plugin now. It’s super refreshing to have compiler errors and symbol navigation inside native vim. Come back!

any pointers? i'd love to upgrade my beloved VIM from ctags-era navigation, but don't have time to shave the whole yak. Would love to hear your tips.

Post by shepherdjerred » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:24 AM UTC

qppo wrote: post #38

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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.

XCode was a motivating factor in my purchase of JetBrains products, specifically CLion.

Post by sjwright » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:33 AM UTC

sixstringtheory wrote: post #301

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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!

Post by Diesel555 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:40 AM UTC

copperx wrote: post #119

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> 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.