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I think they're just heavily and narrowly targeting webdevs. Python for Django, Ruby for Rails, PHP, then a whole bunch of CSS/React-y stuff I'm not too familia

I think they're just heavily and narrowly targeting webdevs. Python for Django, Ruby for Rails, PHP, then a whole bunch of CSS/React-y stuff I'm not too familiar with. I'm sure people use Go for back ends, but it's more for systems right?

laumars 5y ago
Backend web dev has been cited as one of the key reasons Google wanted to create Go.
m_fayer 5y ago
When I looked at the list of natively-supported languages, which are not only webdev-focused but also exclusively dynamically-typed, I felt a blast-from-the-past from around a decade ago. Back when Mac-armed developers writing rails apps were culturally ascendant, and statically typed languages and SQL were uncool corporate dinosaurs. Maybe this company is still living in that time...
biztos 5y ago
> narrowly targeting webdevs That’s the impression I get as well, but it’s a shame since MacBooks are super popular among back-end engineers. I would even speculate that by now, Mac-centric web devs are handily outnumbered by non-web devs (plus web devs doing backend stuff in Go, Rust, whatever). I get that maybe Panic just doesn’t see that as their natural market, but I really love the polish of their apps and do wish Nova (or back in the day, Coda) met my needs.
- ehutch79 5y ago
  Nova feels like its target demographic is 'coda users with 5 more years of experience'. Coda's demographic is really just wordpress developers who know just enough php to be dangerous.