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Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

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Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#31

Post by throwaway102233 »

I just downloaded this to give it a trial and so far my exprience has been infuriating. I go to quick open a file - it takes 5 seconds to provide me a suggestion, I select my suggestion and hit enter, nothing, I double click, nothing, I hit the space bar, nothing.... Okay, let me maximise the window, I double click the window title, nothing, hmm, let me double click where the window controls are, nothing. It hardly feels 'Mac native'.

edit: after typing this out and letting it rest in the background, the quick open now actually opens a file.

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#32

Post by mattiemass »

throwaway102233 wrote: post #31

I just downloaded this to give it a trial and so far my exprience has been infuriating. I go to quick open a file - it takes 5 seconds to provide me a suggestion, I select my suggestion and hit enter, nothing, I double click, nothing, I hit the space bar, nothing.... Okay, let me maximise the window, I double click the window title, nothing, hmm, let me double click where the window controls are, nothing. It hardly f…

I'm sorry it's working so poorly for you. 2.0 has some performance issues that do make it seem more like slow-open in a number of situations. We're working on it.

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#34

Post by nikolay »

I am a paid customer and I've been trying to use it, but it's not useful yet. I bought this as a specialized IDE for Go but then they added Ruby and other languages I don't really care about and Go is not in focus anymore, so, what's the point of being one of the many - Nova, CodeEdit, Sublime Text, VS Code, you name it!

I am disappointed!

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#36

Post by nikolay »

sgt wrote: post #12
smoldesu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A pricing scheme where I don't pay $29.99 for a minimalist editor that gets one year of updates.

It doesn't expire and it's a way to support the little guy while getting a great product. I don't see the issue here. Also, $30 is how many cups of coffee? 6-7?

Well, your 6-7 cups of coffee better go to CodeEdit sponsorship, honestly!

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#37

Post by sgt »

smoldesu wrote: post #13
sgt wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't expire and it's a way to support the little guy while getting a great product. I don't see the issue here. Also, $30 is how many cups of coffee? 6-7?

You Mac users and your coffee comparisons... there are free editors out there that would put Chime to shame. I'd rather use Coteditor if I want a MacOS-native editor, or BBedit if minimalism is paramount. I'm also the sort of person who balks at Sublime licenses, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Still though, there are many (even Mac-native) editors that put up stiff competition.

That made me laugh a bit, thank you! Yes, I guess we have a habit of comparing with coffee, perhaps because we drink so much of it! But I think it's healthy for the software community in general to have multiple ways to make money off your work. Sometimes I really get annoyed when something is a SaaS, I never really own it. I think it's all about putting things into perspective, hence the coffee example. How much do you pay for gasoline each month, or electricity?

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#38

Post by mattiemass »

nikolay wrote: post #34

I am a paid customer and I've been trying to use it, but it's not useful yet. I bought this as a specialized IDE for Go but then they added Ruby and other languages I don't really care about and Go is not in focus anymore, so, what's the point of being one of the many - Nova, CodeEdit, Sublime Text, VS Code, you name it! I am disappointed!

I'm truly sorry to hear that you are disappointed. And I really do get it! The full story is long, but I can sum it up with: our number one request, by far, is support for more languages. Even since this release, we've still gotten requests for yet more not yet available.

The hope is that an open source extension system will make it much easier to add new languages and improve support for existing ones.

But, I also want to be really clear: if you aren't happy, contact us and we'll try to make it right. If you are willing, I'd also love to hear from you about problems and/or missing features. We prioritize requests from license holders over all others.

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

#39

Post by 404mm »

zero_ wrote: post #18
404mm wrote: post #15

Cute but seems a bit too simple. I’m no fan of VSCode, I like my UI clean and simple (like Atom for example). Oh well, will continue waiting on Zed.

out of curiosity: still using atom or vscode or switched to something else?

I’m still running Atom. I’m hoping Pulsar will keep Atom alive. Besides of VSCode, I tried using Sublime for a while. Its absolutely great slick editor (pricey but I was willing to pay for that comfort) but the plug-ins I use were very mediocre and subpar. How about you?

Re: Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS

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Post by zero_ »

404mm wrote: post #39
zero_ wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

out of curiosity: still using atom or vscode or switched to something else?

I’m still running Atom. I’m hoping Pulsar will keep Atom alive. Besides of VSCode, I tried using Sublime for a while. Its absolutely great slick editor (pricey but I was willing to pay for that comfort) but the plug-ins I use were very mediocre and subpar. How about you?

At work I run VSCode. At home I try to run Nova. But I do not seem to get used to it and I fall back to VSCode a lot of times. As a "secondary editor" I use TextMate 2.0.

Let's see if Zed is going to be good. Or maybe I should learn neovim.

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