Does it support LSP (Language Server Protocol)? I see no reference to it either on the splash page or in the extensions.
Nova by Panic
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Re: Nova by Panic
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
From afar it seems their strategy is "make cool shit." They published Untitled Goose Game for the Nintendo Switch, and years and years ago made some official licensed shirts for the PS2 game Katamari Damacy. They really are all over the map and it's wonderful. I imagine part of their physical location requirement is their expensive custom office ( https://panic.com/blog/the-panic-office/ )... but they do a lot of cre…
Nitpick: they didn't "make Firewatch". It was developed by Campo Santo (since acquihired by Valve), and published (in part) by Panic. But I was surprised to learn they are the ones who made Untitled Goose Game.
Yeah my mistake! Forgot about Campo Santo. Fixed. Thanks.
Re: Nova by Panic
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nitpick: they didn't "make Firewatch". It was developed by Campo Santo (since acquihired by Valve), and published (in part) by Panic. But I was surprised to learn they are the ones who made Untitled Goose Game.
They only published Goose Game. It was developed by an indie studio from Australia.
You're right, I misread the wikipedia page.
Re: Nova by Panic
#24> "No-Fuss Analytics & Privacy Settings"
I can't recall a time that analytics have ever made a "fuss" for me, but that's not why I dislike them :(
I don't own a modern Mac, so I can't check the settings out myself, but that's the first thing I would look at after reading this in the features list. Looks great otherwise though, and it's cute how it rhymes with "Coda".
Re: Nova by Panic
#25I've admired Panic for the entirety of my career, they're always doing really nice work, and I'm glad they're still going strong in a time where native desktop apps aren't really the du jour.
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These are the same folks that are making that wind up console?
I don't understand it. They're all over the place. A video game, a video game console, an SSH client, and a text editor. What's the strategy with all of this?
Also, they're hiring, but they don't do equity, and they want you to be physically located at their office?
What?
Perhaps they're filtering out the tech bros for whom equity and remote are deal-breakers.
Since you're not familiar with Panic, this is not a startup, it's a real company. It's been around for decades and has a sterling reputation in the tech community.
Think of it as an artisan technology group. It's a company with a reputation for being fun, and putting out work of a quality to which any FAANG should aspire. Even Apple.
Re: Nova by Panic
#26I used to have coda. I guess they renamed it Nova:
I wanted to love (Coda) it but it wasn't good enough for me to switch. This looks slick, but I work multi-platform so this while it looks great, if doesn't do linux I'm out. They even talk about the lack of cross platform in the copy. If I need speed I'll use Vim or emacs. For day to day I bought the JetBrains suite. For a pretty inovative company, it looks a lot like exiting editors.
I'll keep using Panic's transmit on Mac.. And hoping someone makes a sftp client as good on linux...
Re: Nova by Panic
#27I hope they stick to it. It takes a long time to put down roots. People were dismissive of intellij and jetbrains, but look at them now.
Yes, we need more competition. PyCharm feels so bloated and trying Nova, the speed is incredible. Keyboard latency is something that's underappreciated but it is night and day for me.
Re: Nova by Panic
#28I really wanted to like Nova. I paid for it (and used it) for a year. In the end, though... I switched back to VS Code. Native apps like this are much faster than such things, but I had too many use cases for the plugins. Kind of the same experience as Sublime Text. It's _really fast_, but I just rely too much on plugins when the experience requires something more than vim.
I had a similar experience, but -- possibly counter-intuitively! -- ended up going mostly all-in back on BBEdit 14 when it was released with LSP support which has proven to be a lot less, well, flaky than Nova. I like VS Code a lot and may yet return to it as my main coding editor if I go back to a big project, but BBEdit has always been my old warhorse when it comes to my technical writing because it's just such a Swiss Army Knife for text processing. And BBEdit with Intelephense for PHP or with my own Elixir package for (surprise) Elixir has worked really well.
Nova is pretty, and I'm impressed that they've added a Vim mode, although I haven't been able to really give it a try (my year expired before that was added!). But for me, it wasn't just a lack of plugins, it was that functionality I wanted wasn't there and the functionality that was front and center, like integrated Transmit and Terminal tabs, just wasn't that important to me.
Re: Nova by Panic
#29The download button hover effect is very pretty, but holy smokes you have to warn a person first.
fun! I didn't notice that till you mentioned it.
Re: Nova by Panic
#30> "No-Fuss Analytics & Privacy Settings" I can't recall a time that analytics have ever made a "fuss" for me, but that's not why I dislike them :( I don't own a modern Mac, so I can't check the settings out myself, but that's the first thing I would look at after reading this in the features list. Looks great otherwise though, and it's cute how it rhymes with "Coda".
It's probably alluding to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry which isn't exactly straight forward.