Nova 9

#1

Post by EduardoBautista » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

Nova 9
nova.app

Re: Nova 9

#2

Post by siva7 » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

How does it compare to VS code?

Re: Nova 9

#3

Post by kstrauser » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

Nova is absolutely gorgeous. I'm so done with Electron apps, even ones "done well". There's a lot to be said for fast, native apps that look and feel like they belong on the platform you're running them on.

That said, Nova's Python support wasn't in the ballpark of VS Code's. But testing it for a while soured me on VS Code, and I ended up switching back to Emacs (which has outstanding Python support via LSP these days).

Re: Nova 9

#4

Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #3

Nova is absolutely gorgeous. I'm so done with Electron apps, even ones "done well". There's a lot to be said for fast, native apps that look and feel like they belong on the platform you're running them on. That said, Nova's Python support wasn't in the ballpark of VS Code's. But testing it for a while soured me on VS Code, and I ended up switching back to Emacs (which has outstanding Python support via LSP these day…

Unfortunately Nova didn't work on a large project for me with a lot of generated type definitions. It was a gigantic mobx project and that would make Nova really really slow to the point of being unusable. Somehow VSCode could still work with that.

Re: Nova 9

#5

Post by outcoldman » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:54 PM UTC

Tried v1 two years ago. Even purchased an year subscription. Send some bug issues, feature requests. Got reply in 3 months, at which point I was back on Sublime Text 4 and IntelliJ.

Re: Nova 9

#6

Post by rched » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

siva7 wrote: post #2

How does it compare to VS code?

In my experience it is a bit of a mixed bag. The speed and "Mac feel" are great overall. It seems to work pretty well for the natively supported languages. Unfortunately the LSP support is nowhere near as good as VSCode and they seem to be slow to add features and fix bugs for LSP. This makes it a much worse editor for most languages.

Re: Nova 9

#7

Post by eddof13 » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

I tried it and couldn't get into it, like opening files (command-p in VScode) didn't work as expected for me, and the file explorer wasn't there yet either. I'll check again in a couple years perhaps

Re: Nova 9

#8

Post by ProAm » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

Thought this was the Nova Launcher for Android.

Re: Nova 9

#9

Post by fnordsensei » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

outcoldman wrote: post #5

Tried v1 two years ago. Even purchased an year subscription. Send some bug issues, feature requests. Got reply in 3 months, at which point I was back on Sublime Text 4 and IntelliJ.

Almost exactly my story.

I also found the API limited regarding writing extensions to improve the support for my favorite language, which is not one of the few they focus on.

Re: Nova 9

#10

Post by systemvoltage » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

I tried Nova and it's wonderful. Unfortunately, it just can't compete with JetBrains.

Creators of Nova/Panic - please extend updates for 3 years and I'll purchase it. Once it is mature up to PyCharm levels, 1 year subscription is fine.