[HN Gopher] Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor
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       Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor
        
       Author : luismedel
       Score  : 96 points
       Date   : 2024-09-23 20:34 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | talldayo wrote:
       | *paid editor
       | 
       | There are a lot of great and fast IDE-like programs on Mac
       | (CodeEdit, CotEdit, etc.) - try those before forking out $99 for
       | a text editor.
        
         | brudgers wrote:
         | Checking out multiple code editors takes time. Optimizing $99
         | purchases is sub-optimal for many people. Particularly in the
         | context of professional software development.
         | 
         | Finding free stuff can be a fun hobby. There's nothing wrong
         | with using free time in that pursuit. Other people make
         | different choices.
        
           | mft_ wrote:
           | You're assuming that because something costs $99, it's
           | automatically going to be better than options which are
           | cheaper of free?
        
             | isametry wrote:
             | I think he's implying that it's a decent bet when running a
             | business, yes.
        
               | avarun wrote:
               | And it would be completely incorrect in the context of
               | modern software development tools, where the best in
               | class are open-source and free.
        
         | user3939382 wrote:
         | CotEditor and Nova aren't in the same category. Nova organizes
         | projects.
        
       | Crudodev wrote:
       | Zed code editor looks more interesting, plus it is modern, open-
       | source, and actively developed
        
         | isametry wrote:
         | I am also interested in Zed!
         | 
         | (Although I think the program still needs a bit of time to
         | smooth out the edges, plus not everyone may be a fan of the AI
         | and collaborative features, which get a lot of care in the GUI.
         | You can turn all of it off, but still.)
         | 
         | But I don't like the implication that Nova is abandoned or less
         | modern compared to Zed. Nova is arguably one of the sexiest
         | apps on the Mac right now - it looks _gorgeous_ and it 's far
         | more "Mac-assed" than any of Apple's software, for starters.
         | And in terms of development / maintenance, it should be in VERY
         | good hands at Panic.
         | 
         | You're 100% right on open-source vs closed-source, though.
        
           | veber-alex wrote:
           | > Nova is arguably one of the sexiest apps on the Mac right
           | now - it looks gorgeous and it's far more "Mac-assed" than
           | any of Apple's software, for starters.
           | 
           | Really? Looking at the screenshots from the front page it
           | looks like a custom GUI framework and doesn't even look like
           | a native macOS app, even the folder icons in the file tree
           | are wrong. The only way I can tell it's a macOS app is by the
           | traffic lights on the top left.
        
             | chambored wrote:
             | It is reminiscent of XCode in its icons and panels.
        
             | isametry wrote:
             | You're not wrong, the frontpage screenshots don't entirely
             | do it justice. That title bar you mention is one of the
             | most custom-looking components for sure, especially in the
             | "Neon" theme.
             | 
             | But it gets better when clicking around the app - all the
             | different settings, modal sheets and sidebars feel very
             | much like home.
             | 
             | The filetree icons are... a choice, yes. They kind of lean
             | more into the "smooth skeumorphic squircle" look which is
             | normally applied to apps, NOT files and folders. I'm
             | guessing they didn't want to and/or weren't allowed to use
             | the plain icons that Xcode does.
        
         | asa400 wrote:
         | What does "modern" mean in this context?
        
           | nicce wrote:
           | Some things are already noted in design phase where you would
           | need tons of plugins in other editors. And the resource usage
           | footprint is pretty low.
        
           | unplug8224 wrote:
           | It typically means that it's written in JavaScript or Rust,
           | depending on the intended audience
        
             | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
             | Two extreme opposites. One entirely passionate vs one
             | entirely optimizing for TC and leetcode.
        
         | mattl wrote:
         | Nova is also modern and actively developed.
        
       | oidar wrote:
       | What are the advantages of this over Visual Studio Code or
       | JetBrain's Tools?
        
         | isametry wrote:
         | First word of the headline - it works and feels native to the
         | platform. JetBrains and _especially_ VS Code don't respect the
         | conventions of macOS software, visually as well as
         | functionally.
        
           | nottorp wrote:
           | That may be a plus for code editing, for example pgup/pgdown
           | moving the cursor instead of just the view...
        
             | isametry wrote:
             | I'm gonna bite on this example since you chose such a good
             | one: if the convention on the platform is that `Page`
             | buttons are like scrolling - NOT like arrowing - then good
             | applications should respect that convention.
             | 
             | You personally list this particular (mis)behavior as a
             | "plus" since you like the PC convention better. But another
             | person will think the opposite. Objectively, it's simply
             | just inconsistent.
             | 
             | What we need is "good platform citizen" apps which respect
             | the local conventions, and you as the user get to choose
             | the platform with its set of conventions you prefer.
             | 
             | What we DON'T need is apps "unifying" behavior across
             | operating systems based on their own opinion of what's
             | better, ultimately just creating more mess.
        
               | avarun wrote:
               | No, you don't get to decide that. Myself and many others
               | have decided they liked this unified behavior just fine,
               | while still preferring to code on macOS.
        
               | ubermonkey wrote:
               | This 100%.
               | 
               | Many of us on the Mac are there in part _because_ the
               | environment and conventions make more sense to us than
               | the conventions on other platforms. X-platform apps
               | typically ignore this.
               | 
               | See also
               | 
               | https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-
               | mac-a...
        
               | nottorp wrote:
               | I like the Mac conventions most of the time.
               | 
               | However for keyboard shortcuts said conventions are
               | defined for crippled keyboards without dedicated
               | navigation keys and the extension for PgUp/Down is simply
               | inefficient when programming.
        
               | ascagnel_ wrote:
               | I think there's a somewhat obvious middle ground here:
               | use the platform's default behavior, and surface an
               | option that lets a user decide if they prefer the other
               | version; eg: a PC user should also have the option to
               | treat the page keys as scroll inputs rather than cursor
               | navigation.
        
               | isametry wrote:
               | No disagreement. But I was talking within the scenario
               | where you only get _one_. (Should have pointed that out.)
        
               | nottorp wrote:
               | Answer 1: I don't use macs because of some religious
               | conviction but because it's the least shitty platform
               | available.
               | 
               | Answer 2: I bought a general purpose computing device and
               | I don't need the manufacturer to dictate how I use it.
        
           | lynndotpy wrote:
           | On this note, do you have any notes or resources on what
           | makes a MacOS app "native"? It's a quality people discuss but
           | I can't identify.
           | 
           | I used MacOS briefly 2000-2004, and then got a Macbook in
           | 2022. Even among Apple's built-in apps, I can't identify why
           | they would be considered "native".
           | 
           | For example, Apple's Music app is surely "native", but does
           | not appear to use the DEs default elements, and performs like
           | an electron app might.
           | 
           | One would also expect Applescript / Automator (Apple's built-
           | in macro tool, a-la AutoHotkey / xdotool) to work with native
           | apps, but it doesn't work on ARM Macbooks.
           | 
           | Compared to Linux, I think anyone with no experience in it
           | could sort native GTK vs native Qt vs native xMotif
           | applications. But I think "native" as a quality is more of a
           | dependency management and consistency question.
           | 
           | The only thing I can recognize from Panic's screenshots that
           | appear "native" is the Preferences page, in the older "grid
           | on a shelf" format. (edit) And the "install applications by
           | dragging to the Applications" folder workflow, which I
           | appreciate very much.
           | 
           | All this is to ask, what does "works and feels native" mean
           | and what makes it desirable?
        
             | adolph wrote:
             | > For example, Apple's Music app is surely "native", but
             | does not appear to use the DEs default elements, and
             | performs like an electron app might.
             | 
             | For the grey beards of MacOS:
             | 
             |  _This guy trashes the HIG [Apple Human Interface Guide]
             | the way Johnny Depp trashes a hotel room. He even sports a
             | custom radius on his window corners. No other window on the
             | system has a shape like this. It's wild. Just wait until
             | the HIG zealots get a load of this guy._
             | 
             | https://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
        
             | joshstrange wrote:
             | Apple that follow the HIG [0] closely are normally
             | considered "mac native" (though I don't like the word
             | "native" here as I normally use it to differentiate between
             | electron/native).
             | 
             | [0] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-
             | guideline...
        
             | crazygringo wrote:
             | > _what makes a MacOS app "native"?_
             | 
             | For me, it has three parts:
             | 
             | 1) Does it _look_ native at a pixel level? In other words,
             | does it use a standard Mac window and title bar and buttons
             | and widgets and all the rest?
             | 
             | 2) Is it _organized_ according to Mac UX conventions? Does
             | it put commands in the menu bar rather than inside of
             | windows? Are menu items where you 'd expect? Is the
             | "Settings..." command where you'd expect, and is the
             | Settings dialog laid out in standard tabs or icons across
             | the top, rather than something else (like a list box on the
             | left)?
             | 
             | 3) Does it respect all standard _gestures and shortcuts and
             | animations_? If I press opt+left in a textbox, will the
             | cursor jump to the previous word? If I press cmd+right,
             | will it jump to the end of the text? If I scroll down, will
             | it bounce at the bottom?
             | 
             | That's what it means. And it's desirable for 1) aesthetics,
             | 2) understandability, and 3) usability directly
             | corresponding to those three points. Aesthetics is less
             | important but it's still nice. Understandability is
             | important because I don't want to hunt for a command when
             | it's not where I'd expect. And usability is critical
             | because when I cmd+right in a text box and it doesn't work,
             | it's _incredibly_ frustrating.
             | 
             | Obviously, "native" is not a binary but is rather a
             | continuum. And yes, even Apple's own apps are not always
             | 100% at the "native" end, especially with stuff they've
             | designed in conjunction with iOS. Which I think a lot of
             | Mac users find frustrating.
        
               | isametry wrote:
               | Greatly put, thank you so much. We should put this up
               | somewhere as the Mac-assed manifesto.
               | 
               | But I would actually add, on a more fundamental level:
               | 
               | 0) Does it actually run on my metal? I.e. not in a VM,
               | not any sort of "thin client", and CERTAINLY not
               | Electron... but rather an actual solid piece of software
               | compiled _for_ the computer it 's running on?
               | 
               | You say "native is not a binary" but actually, in my
               | opinion _yes, it is also very much the binary!_
        
               | wpm wrote:
               | "is the Settings dialog laid out in standard tabs or
               | icons across the top, rather than something else (like a
               | list box on the left)?"
               | 
               | Or worse, a huge plain old JSON with tons of multi line
               | comments explaining what one particular key does.
               | 
               | Like, I get it, its l33t and haxx0r to use a text file
               | for settings, and yeah, you can easily transfer it to
               | other platforms unlike an XML Plist file, but I despise
               | apps that don't even bother providing a basic UI for
               | changing settings. Ctrl+F "autocomplete" (30 results) is
               | a *terrible* experience vs a natively drawn
               | "Autocomplete" tab in a settings modal.
        
               | lynndotpy wrote:
               | I appreciate this, this helps explain it. I think I would
               | identify Finder or iTerm as a native app with this
               | description.
        
             | throwaway290 wrote:
             | As an apple fan, Music is disgusting on every platform. It
             | is possible to be technically native but also very bad. For
             | a text editor it is also true but where entry speed matters
             | being a web based monster like VS studio is a downside. You
             | may not notice delay consciously but it takes its toll
        
               | Doctor_Fegg wrote:
               | "It is possible to be technically native but also very
               | bad" and yet still 100x better than iTunes.
        
               | renewedrebecca wrote:
               | It seems like it would be so easy to _not_ suck though. I
               | think a lot of the problems stem from the Music app
               | really wanting to be a streaming app, and not a way to
               | organize your own music.
        
             | ubermonkey wrote:
             | Brent Simmons used the term "Mac-assed Mac app" for apps
             | that are un-apologetically MAC apps, and not just
             | x-platform builds of something else with no regard for the
             | OS.
             | 
             | https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-
             | mac-a...
        
             | isametry wrote:
             | First, I wish there was a resource but there isn't. This
             | kind of just lives on as bits of folklore among users and
             | devs. You'd think Apple's guidelines was a place to start,
             | but honestly not really.
             | 
             | The sibling comments gave some great answers and especially
             | `crazygringo` summarized pretty much exactly what I was
             | gonna say, so I'm not gonna go into detail.
             | 
             | But I just wanna add: "Mac-assedness" totally includes of
             | some strict, non-negotiable rules, but it also involves
             | lots of loose, abstract "vibes" where even if your app
             | isn't exactly guideline _on paper_ , it just feels right in
             | spirit and paradoxically, by being more custom, the app
             | comes out more native in the end. This takes a certain
             | personal taste to pull off as a developer. And it is the
             | opposite of _design by committee_.
        
             | wpm wrote:
             | "One would also expect Applescript / Automator (Apple's
             | built-in macro tool, a-la AutoHotkey / xdotool) to work
             | with native apps, but it doesn't work on ARM Macbooks."
             | 
             | This is completely false, I use Automator, Applescript, and
             | Folder Actions near daily on my Apple Silicon Macs.
        
               | lynndotpy wrote:
               | I have my Automations and Applescripts fail regularly,
               | and I saw it discussed as one of the things Apple stopped
               | maintaining after the move to ARM. In my experience, it
               | doesn't work. (Of course, I can't compare to how well it
               | worked on x86...)
        
             | maratc wrote:
             | Excellent points above, for me personally the "Shared Find
             | pasteboard" has been a huge productivity boost.
             | 
             | Everyone's aware of the normal clipboard: select some text,
             | press ^C ([?]C on Mac) to copy and ^V ([?]V on Mac) to
             | paste it. It's system-wide, so you can copy in one app and
             | paste in a different one (or several).
             | 
             | On Mac, there is a similar pasteboard (or "clipboard") for
             | search strings. Select text, select "Use Selection for
             | Find" or press [?]E (this sends it into shared find
             | pasteboard, overwriting its contents), and [?]G to "Find
             | Next" occurrence of that string, or |[?]G to "Find
             | Previous".
             | 
             | The shared find pasteboard is also system-wide, you can use
             | [?]E in one app and [?]G/|[?]G in another app. When you use
             | [?]F to "Find ...", it is expected to already open up
             | populated with the contents of the shared find pasteboard.
             | 
             | The majority of the cross-platform apps are lacking this
             | feature, since they are designed to a lowest common
             | denominator (which does not have the shared find
             | pasteboard). On VS Code you'd find yourself doing ^C/^F/^V
             | followed by several "Enter" keys, while overwriting
             | whatever you've had on your clipboard and also polluting
             | your clipboard history.
             | 
             | I hope all that explains how I'm stuck with iTerm2, Safari,
             | Mail, and TextMate. I'd pay for a native Slack client (the
             | Electron abomination uses [?]F to "Find" and [?]G to
             | "Search" while lacking [?]E completely) but sadly they
             | don't make it.
        
         | Lalabadie wrote:
         | There's a portion of the web world that values this sort of
         | tool immensely. Nova (like its predecessor Coda) is focused on
         | a certain subset of web development workflows.
         | 
         | I'm sure VSCode and others can be configured or extended to
         | come close to the experience, but 100$ for something well-made
         | that fits your workflow out of the box is a pretty great deal
         | for a professional.
        
           | err4nt wrote:
           | If they were aiming to please web developers, they took a
           | wrong approach. Their syntax highlighter by design is
           | incompatible in its approach to parsing CSS to be able to
           | syntax highlight it correctly, and this was pointed out to
           | them early on and they just hacked something broken together.
           | It didn't appear to be a serious attempt to support web
           | languages.
        
         | acomjean wrote:
         | It's Mac only, which means it follows the Mac UI conventions
         | and is probably, should run faster and is integrated into the
         | OS a little better.
         | 
         | I'm paying for jetbrains now. I'm on Linux but it's clearly a
         | non-native application, which has some issues. Actually it
         | integrates really well considering. I can run in any os and
         | it's the same. I tried eclipse (free), but the experience wasnt
         | good and it was worth buying jetbrains software. This probably
         | has a quite polished experience.
         | 
         | Panic also made transmit, which was my goto file transfer
         | solution for a long time and a really decent piece of software.
        
         | kybernetyk wrote:
         | I like the UI more. It's native and feels snappier. But I don't
         | use it as my main code editor - rather just as a text editor. I
         | also edit markdown for my website with it. And do light PHP
         | development with it (essentially just a few scripts).
         | 
         | I don't know if I would use Nova to actually develop anything
         | more serious. Haven't looked to deep into it and I like my
         | devtools to be opensource or at least have the feeling of them
         | being maintained for very long. (Text editors tend to die very
         | often).
        
         | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
         | Jetbrain tools are broken. A basic `npm link` in the js land
         | stops autocomplete from working in Webstorm.
        
           | noworriesnate wrote:
           | > Jetbrain tools are broken.
           | 
           | Nope. I use Rider on Mac and Windows and it's better than
           | Visual Studio on Windows in almost every way it's different.
           | I've used Pycharm and Datagrip extensively on Mac and Windows
           | as well, they're excellent tools. I haven't used Webstorm
           | much though.
        
             | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
             | Rider and IntelliJ for C# and Java yes. But every other
             | tool no. RustRover is horrible for Rust for example
             | compared to VSCode + Rust plugin.
        
       | bradley_taunt wrote:
       | I really wanted to like this editor, but it chugs while working
       | with 10,000+ file projects. It also seems to index all the files
       | each time the project is relaunched.
       | 
       | Sublime runs flawlessly working with this same codebase...
        
         | zeckalpha wrote:
         | ulimit?
        
           | bradley_taunt wrote:
           | Not sure if that would solve the underlying issues. CPU usage
           | spikes to >190% when in use. Maybe this is a bug with
           | Sequoia?
        
         | ubermonkey wrote:
         | I still have Sublime around, too. I want to quit it and
         | consolidate elsewhere, but...
        
       | jkestner wrote:
       | I automatically bought Nova (cue fainting) when it came out
       | because Panic has provided me with a lot of value over the years
       | (yes, I paid for an FTP client, too).
       | 
       | I still use VS Code the most, but I don't enjoy tinkering with
       | endlessly customizable tools to get the perfect environment. I
       | like an opinionated tool that has a solid handful of niceties,
       | and doesn't abdicate features to a bazaar of plugins. Nova's good
       | like that, but I miss Espresso, which I consider even more Mac-
       | like for being a little offbeat but also had some genuine
       | innovations like a GUI for CSS attributes. It hasn't been updated
       | in several years, but I'm trying it again to see if it works
       | better for the kids (learning web design) than Nova.
        
         | nextos wrote:
         | Transmit by Panic was one of the applications that were always
         | featured back in the golden days of Tiger and Leopard.
         | 
         | I find it a bit sad that the boutique and indie apps market on
         | Macs seems to be languishing.
         | 
         | There are still some great things around, but I think it was
         | overshadowed by iOS.
        
           | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
           | Now everything is being written in Electron because
           | "shipping" has become culturally the most important thing.
           | This is a whole misunderstanding of human happiness. We don't
           | need anything beyond food and shelter. Don't need banks, VCs,
           | markets and Slack. So we should focus on tinkering and making
           | quality stuff again instead otherwise there is really no need
           | to do anything.
        
             | nextos wrote:
             | Electron feels odd compared to native applications, and
             | resource usage is pretty insane. A single Electron app
             | takes more memory than everything running in my machine,
             | including an X server, PipeWire, plus an Emacs and an XTerm
             | instance. Well done native applications are really
             | refreshing, and they don't spin my computer fans all the
             | time.
             | 
             | Macs had a very healthy boutique and indie app scene at
             | some point, with lots of attention to detail, because users
             | were happy to pay for good quality software. The Omni
             | Group, Panic, Cultured Code, etc. all delivered outstanding
             | things. GNOME 2 was pretty nice too in its own ways. After
             | a lot of churn and changes, it is again re-emerging as a
             | noteworthy desktop ecosystem. See https://apps.gnome.org.
        
             | jamil7 wrote:
             | As someone who's done a fair bit of native macOS
             | development. I'd say modern Apple is also at least
             | partially to blame by their lack of understanding for macOS
             | and seeming disdain for it. SwiftUI 5 years later is still
             | full of issues on mac and missing a lot of the things
             | AppKit provided for free that made mac apps mac apps. A
             | SwiftUI app on mac doesn't feel like a mac app in the way
             | people are nostalgic for. While on iOS it chips away at
             | UIKit every year.
        
               | eyelidlessness wrote:
               | I'm definitely not a macOS developer, but I've been a Mac
               | user longer than most (back when it was called "system").
               | What makes a "Mac app" feel like one has always been a
               | constant evolution. Even in what I'd nostalgically
               | consider the highest points in Mac experience.
               | 
               | While SwiftUI apps do feel different from what came
               | before, the underlying UX feels different too. A SwiftUI
               | app intentionally built for macOS isn't nearly as
               | disjoint an experience as say Catalyst, let alone
               | Electron. And given how much the non-native experience
               | has taken hold, there's no reason a new baseline native
               | experience couldn't be established. The reason it won't
               | isn't because of any specific technology, it's largely
               | because there's basically no market for a rich native app
               | ecosystem as that baseline. The entire economy of desktop
               | software is stagnant.
               | 
               | I do wonder if desktop as a use case becoming even more
               | niche than it already has could see that trend start to
               | reverse. It would be a smaller market, but that's exactly
               | how the older macOS experience thrived.
        
               | jamil7 wrote:
               | Fair points, I'm probably inclined to vent about the tech
               | more being closer to it.
               | 
               | I do think that a niche will continue to exist as long as
               | Apple offers an official way to build for it, for a
               | variety of reasons.
        
           | cenal wrote:
           | I think the Mac App Store has been a terrible distribution
           | system for indie devs... I never even think of going there
           | for apps, nor do the non-technical folks I know.
           | 
           | The iOS App store is a monopoly that is breaking down in
           | Europe. I expect the landscape will continue to evolve
           | globally and it will fall in other markets as well.
        
             | coldtea wrote:
             | > _I think the Mac App Store has been a terrible
             | distribution system for indie devs... I never even think of
             | going there for apps, nor do the non-technical folks I
             | know._
             | 
             | Not sure what you mean. Everyone I know with a Mac gets
             | their stuff from MAS and brew, only if forced go to some
             | separate installer, like Adobe shit and specialized apps.
             | From hardcore system programmers to graphic designers to
             | home users...
        
       | travisgriggs wrote:
       | Happy Nova user here. I use it for our embedded C Code. I use the
       | SeaDragon plugin with it. I was pretty frustrated trying to
       | figure out how to configure VSCode to work with our toolchains,
       | and I didn't want to learn CMake just so I could use CLion. We
       | had been using the free version of QT IDE, but that got less and
       | less useful/available.
        
       | joshstrange wrote:
       | I normally think of code editors in one of 3 categories:
       | 
       | 1. Plain text editors that can be extended and turned into semi-
       | IDE/IDEs. This includes tools like VS Code or Sublime Text.
       | 
       | 2. Opinionated editors with some type of extensions/plugins
       | (normally more limited that the other 2 sections). This includes
       | tools like Coda or Nova.
       | 
       | 3. Full IDEs with extensive extension support. This includes
       | tools like JetBrains, Eclipse, etc.
       | 
       | I prefer #3 but have used all 3 at different parts of my career.
       | Started with Notepad++ then moved on to Coda, then Sublime, then
       | Idea. Coda was really nice and I'm sure Nova is too if your needs
       | are met by it. Meaning if you don't need support for anything
       | outside of the core offerings or extensions available. Once you
       | do need more then you have to either jump to 1 and build it
       | yourself or jump to 3 and get most of it out of the box. #1 can
       | be incredibly powerful if you are willing to put in the time and
       | effort to set it up and keep it updated. Personally I want more
       | "out of the box" than #1 and I'm very happy with the
       | extensions/plugins available to me.
       | 
       | Another observation I have is that #1 is going to be the most
       | cutting edge followed by #3 with #2 bringing up the rear (largely
       | due to market share). #2 can be an amazing place to be if what
       | you are writing is well supported but if you need to step outside
       | of the "happy path" you are going to have a rough time whereas
       | #1/#3 can handle that without issue.
       | 
       | Lastly, I will probably end up buying Nova at some point just to
       | support Panic. I own a lot of their software (I use Transmit for
       | pretty much all my file transfer needs) and their level of polish
       | is unrivaled in the space they compete in. Their software always
       | puts a smile on my face. Something that a lot of people don't
       | seem to know is they are also the company behind the games
       | Firewatch [0] and Untitled Goose Game [1] as well the Playdate
       | [2]. They are a really cool company.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.firewatchgame.com/
       | 
       | [1] https://goose.game/
       | 
       | [2] https://play.date/
        
         | crtasm wrote:
         | They also published this gem recently:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_Goodness_You're_Here!
        
       | rasdbiouqwb-123 wrote:
       | Is there a single code editor that provides the same experience
       | with Remote SSH and Devcontainers as vscode?
       | 
       | This is the first thing I look for when considering the
       | alternative
        
         | renewedrebecca wrote:
         | IntelliJ definitely handles SSH-based development. I use it
         | every day. Not sure about containers though, as I don't use
         | them at all.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related. Others?
       | 
       |  _Is Panic done with Nova? (Native Mac text editor)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41506472 - Sept 2024 (1
       | comment)
       | 
       |  _Nova - a native macOS code editor from Panic_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37902938 - Oct 2023 (1
       | comment)
       | 
       |  _Nova 9_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30701613 - March
       | 2022 (99 comments)
       | 
       |  _Nova by Panic_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066298
       | - Jan 2022 (257 comments)
       | 
       |  _Nova by Panic_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495330
       | - Sept 2020 (542 comments)
        
       | pelagicAustral wrote:
       | I tried to make it work for me working with Rails and could never
       | achieve anything close to the productivity I get with RubyMine. I
       | understand these two products are in completely different
       | leagues, but I thought it might be interesting to try the native
       | alternative... It just was never really viable for me to work
       | with... even for simple quick editing, the load time is to much
       | compared to any slimer editor... I was happy to contribute with a
       | licence for a native product, since I believe in that, so no loss
       | really...
        
       | manchmalscott wrote:
       | Does anyone have experience using this to develop with elixir /
       | phoenix liveview?
        
       | nikolay wrote:
       | I couldn't stand their unnative looks so I stopped paying (and
       | not using it). The tabs in the titlebar are hideous!
        
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