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how do you find Nova, and what kind of code do you write with it? i mostly work with Node.js and React, and really like VS Code for working with that tech... bu
by _fzslm 5y ago
how do you find Nova, and what kind of code do you write with it? i mostly work with Node.js and React, and really like VS Code for working with that tech... but Nova is looking very attractive to me as a Mac-focussed alternative.
- bingidingi 5y agopersonally I found Nova to be kind of old school interface-wise… it’s good, but I’ve grown too used to IDEs like Atom/VS/etc, which seem more minimal on the surface Of course you can customize it and do whatever you want, but I found it hard to find a reason to switch outside of my affinity for the people at Panic (and I’ve got plenty of other ways to give them money).
- andrekandre 5y agonot the op, but... i find it pretty good, i use it for swift development (packages/libs) with a swift plugin (language server) it works pretty well for that, its quite lightweight and smooth for the most part my only concerns are 1. the swift plugin hasnt been updated in a long time, when will it stop working? (general issue of relying in plugins) 2. i think it uses its own text engine, so it "feels" different to other cocoa apps, not a big deal, just something i notice 3. if you wanna just open a file and get syntax highlighting, dont care about autocompletion/building, its maybe a little heavy for that (in the ui sense) 4. this may depend on plugin functionality, but error messages sometimes dont work as well as in xcode (click to fix, duplicate errors reported etc) --- its not as fully powered as jetbrains tho someday maybe it could!