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It's a fun thought, except it's not even "native" on Mac (it's C++ with some macOS/Cocoa bindings). I could never see Apple buying an app that wasn't built full

It's a fun thought, except it's not even "native" on Mac (it's C++ with some macOS/Cocoa bindings). I could never see Apple buying an app that wasn't built fully-native on their own platform, let alone a text editor. If Apple cared about a text editor, it would have bought TextMate years ago before that community migrated to Sublime (and some members of then migrated to Atom).

52-6F-62 9y ago
Is there any one editor that exists in prominence like this outside of fully-fledged IDE's and underdeveloped attempts? I haven't seen anything yet...
- giobox 9y ago
  Although they have the obvious Electron based complaints, increasingly Atom and VS Code are getting more and more popular. In my workplace these have now largely replaced what was once pretty much a Sublime only shop. For my needs, Atom's third party package community has evolved at a pace far beyond what I experienced with Sublime. I of course still miss Sublime's superb speed, and ability to handle extremely large files without barfing. Mac users have also been big on using BBEdit for a long, long time.
  - 52-6F-62 9y ago
    Ah, I've tried all of them but because of this thread I'm trying VSCode again. It feels a little more robust, if a little more rigid than Atom. It's not a bad thing. I do like Atom, but experience the same complaints everybody else does there. Still a great project. Just was curious if there was some hidden gem not yet seen. I wonder if that would be a worthwhile undertaking -- a new native (even if its mac-only) robust editor...
    - pvg 9y ago
      TextMate is still around and at this point works more or less like OG TextMate did back in the day. It does one thing that most other OS X editors don't: it displays TextMate themes in the colour space they were originally designed in.
      - 52-6F-62 9y ago
        Wow yeah another one that seems to have rooted itself... There's Coda as well which I forgot about. It seems that there's the 3 big native editors, sublime the "native" editor, then the electron apps. I'm visualizing a niche: something with all of the benefits of the electron gang, sublime, and the native performance and stability. I'm sure it's a bit of a project.

52-6F-62 9y ago

Is there any one editor that exists in prominence like this outside of fully-fledged IDE's and underdeveloped attempts? I haven't seen anything yet...

giobox 9y ago
Although they have the obvious Electron based complaints, increasingly Atom and VS Code are getting more and more popular. In my workplace these have now largely replaced what was once pretty much a Sublime only shop. For my needs, Atom's third party package community has evolved at a pace far beyond what I experienced with Sublime. I of course still miss Sublime's superb speed, and ability to handle extremely large files without barfing. Mac users have also been big on using BBEdit for a long, long time.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  Ah, I've tried all of them but because of this thread I'm trying VSCode again. It feels a little more robust, if a little more rigid than Atom. It's not a bad thing. I do like Atom, but experience the same complaints everybody else does there. Still a great project. Just was curious if there was some hidden gem not yet seen. I wonder if that would be a worthwhile undertaking -- a new native (even if its mac-only) robust editor...
  - pvg 9y ago
    TextMate is still around and at this point works more or less like OG TextMate did back in the day. It does one thing that most other OS X editors don't: it displays TextMate themes in the colour space they were originally designed in.
    - 52-6F-62 9y ago
      Wow yeah another one that seems to have rooted itself... There's Coda as well which I forgot about. It seems that there's the 3 big native editors, sublime the "native" editor, then the electron apps. I'm visualizing a niche: something with all of the benefits of the electron gang, sublime, and the native performance and stability. I'm sure it's a bit of a project.