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Re: Nova 9

#21

Post by cestith »

ProAm wrote: post #8

Thought this was the Nova Launcher for Android.

My first thought before seeing the version number was it was something about the Nova compute service in OpenStack, but that's on 25.0.something right now.

Re: Nova 9

#22

Post by nfadili »

Deal breaker for me (last time I checked it out) was the lack of a built in git diff. I don't need anything fancy, but I can't live in an editor without it. Does anybody know if this is planned or workable in later versions?

Re: Nova 9

#24

Post by css »

kstrauser wrote: post #17
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I forget the exact details, but I also had problems getting things like Black, mypy, flake8, isort, etc. running. VS Code is really good about making that all work with minimal effort. Emacs is a bit more effort, but it's flawless with a tiny bit of tweaking. I never was able to get the same results out of Nova, and that's what ultimately pushed me away. I don't have anything bad to say about Nova, except that I pers…

When Nova first came out I wrote a small extension [0] to provide an autopep8 formatting, but there is too much manual management on the user's end. Since there is no API to manage extension dependencies, the user has to manually install and specify the path to where `autopep8` is, which to my mind is a lot of friction.

Compare that to VSCode, where there is a whole API [1] for formatting extensions!

[0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/Nova-autopep8

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/11/15/formatters-be...

Re: Nova 9

#25

Post by lelandfe »

eddof13 wrote: post #7

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

Cmd-Shift-O for opening files. It's also remappable.

I also bounced off of Nova for other reasons, but saying the hotkeys differ from one's favorite editor is a strange complaint

Re: Nova 9

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Post by [deleted] »

eddof13 wrote: post #7

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

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Re: Nova 9

#29

Post by pipework »

lekevicius wrote: post #12

I'm happy to see them try, but rationally, I just don't understand why Panic is even trying. The trade-offs are just too steep. They won't ever have the ecosystem of open-source, Electron-based editors. And whatever you gain from being mac-native is just not enough of a benefit for almost all development.

Panic is pretty much exactly a “Native MacOS” company. It’s in their blood, it’s in their history.

Re: Nova 9

#30

Post by egypturnash »

nfadili wrote: post #22

Deal breaker for me (last time I checked it out) was the lack of a built in git diff. I don't need anything fancy, but I can't live in an editor without it. Does anybody know if this is planned or workable in later versions?

"We don't have built-in diff yet, but it's on our list!" - halfway down the front page of nova.app
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