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Matt here - developer and member of the team of two that works on Chime. Thanks for your kind words. There actually are a lot of Cocoa-based editors out there,

Matt here - developer and member of the team of two that works on Chime. Thanks for your kind words. There actually are a lot of Cocoa-based editors out there, but to my knowledge, Chime is the only one that puts such a large emphasis on language-level support. We intend to continue to focus on that going forward. To be honest, I think the multi-platform products available today are super-compelling. One of the reasons they are so immensely popular. But, I'm glad you're into what we're doing :)

pcr910303 7y ago
> but to my knowledge, Chime is the only one that puts such a large emphasis on language-level support. We intend to continue to focus on that going forward. Thanks for developing this great product! I'm so thankful for your efforts for integrating your app with AppKit (like - being basically the only editor that supports AppKit tabs which... AFAIK even Safari doesn't). I mean -- I'm compelled to learn Go trying to justify buying this :-) By all means please continue this effort; and if possible, consider add support for other languages. By looking at your blogposts it seems it's running LSP under-the-hood for completion; by leveraging LSP, I hope Chime can gain multi-language support. That would basically justify a hundred dollars at least for me. Thanks.
- mattiemass 7y ago
  I'm just really happy that you're excited! I've covered this elsewhere, but other languages aren't going to be an immediate focus for us. Possible, but even with LSP it's a lot of work to do something well. And, we still have tons of room for improvement just with Go.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Safari uses a custom implementation because its tabs predate AppKit's, but I'd like to think that the AppKit one is heavily inspired by Safari's. By the way, Sublime Text supports these (though it's a bit strange how they've implemented it).
ksec 7y ago
Will Chime always be an Editor specially for Go only? Also wondering on what motivate you to write an Editor in the first place? Even though I dont use Go I will keep an eye on it. Simply because it looks brilliant.
- mattiemass 7y ago
  It's a lot of work to support a language well. Our intention is to focus on Go for now, but we're open to others in the future. Lots of reasons for building an editor, but mainly our technical backgrounds with compilers and macOS apps felt like a good combination. Also, there aren't many (any?) macOS-native editors with deep language integration, so it really felt like an under-served market.

pcr910303 7y ago

> but to my knowledge, Chime is the only one that puts such a large emphasis on language-level support. We intend to continue to focus on that going forward. Thanks for developing this great product! I'm so thankful for your efforts for integrating your app with AppKit (like - being basically the only editor that supports AppKit tabs which... AFAIK even Safari doesn't). I mean -- I'm compelled to learn Go trying to justify buying this :-) By all means please continue this effort; and if possible, consider add support for other languages. By looking at your blogposts it seems it's running LSP under-the-hood for completion; by leveraging LSP, I hope Chime can gain multi-language support. That would basically justify a hundred dollars at least for me. Thanks.

mattiemass 7y ago
I'm just really happy that you're excited! I've covered this elsewhere, but other languages aren't going to be an immediate focus for us. Possible, but even with LSP it's a lot of work to do something well. And, we still have tons of room for improvement just with Go.
saagarjha 7y ago
Safari uses a custom implementation because its tabs predate AppKit's, but I'd like to think that the AppKit one is heavily inspired by Safari's. By the way, Sublime Text supports these (though it's a bit strange how they've implemented it).

ksec 7y ago

Will Chime always be an Editor specially for Go only? Also wondering on what motivate you to write an Editor in the first place? Even though I dont use Go I will keep an eye on it. Simply because it looks brilliant.

mattiemass 7y ago
It's a lot of work to support a language well. Our intention is to focus on Go for now, but we're open to others in the future. Lots of reasons for building an editor, but mainly our technical backgrounds with compilers and macOS apps felt like a good combination. Also, there aren't many (any?) macOS-native editors with deep language integration, so it really felt like an under-served market.