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I don’t understand why geany isn’t more popular.

• Octoth0rpe 4y ago
  IMO on macos, geany feels more alien than electron-based editors (vscode, etc). I think this is because it sort of falls into an uncanny valley of UI where it's _almost_ native looking, but noticeably different; whereas electron-based editors don't even try and so are less jarring. Geany is definitely my fav editor on linux though.
  • 2devnull 4y ago
    That’s probably the reason. Most Mac users stick to Macs exclusively, whereas Linux and windows users are more likely to use both windows and *nix so having a single cross platform editor, besides vim/emacs, is useful.
  • seabrookmx 4y ago
    Geany uses GTK on all platforms which means it only really looks "native" in Gnome based Linux distro.