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What are people’s go to Mac (GUI) editors these days?

klodolph 3y ago
BBEdit. I’ve been through a few… TextMate, Sublime. Used various IDEs heavily at various points. Used VS Code. Used Emacs (+ accumulated a long .emacs). Used Vim. BBEdit is the general go-to for me on the Mac. On Linux, it’s Emacs. In the terminal, it’s Vim. Back in the 1990s, BBEdit completely outclassed IDEs and most other editors. I’d even have a project open in an IDE, but be editing the source code in BBEdit. BBEdit could send commands to the open IDE to compile or run your project. Other editors have mostly caught up to 1990s BBEdit, so it’s not such a big deal any more, but it’s still a solid editor.
JKCalhoun 3y ago
BBEdit and Visual Studio Code.
petesergeant 3y ago
Sublime as a general editor, VS Code for when I need more language support
- drcongo 3y ago
  Sublime, but I have high hopes for Zed
jwells89 3y ago
Sublime for the most part. Will occasionally fire up TextMate though just because its UI is kinda comfy for me, being the first editor of its kind that I used back in the heyday of Rails.
etchalon 3y ago
Nova (https://nova.app https://nova.app) It's so close to being great.
- tonyedgecombe 3y ago
  I'm trying it again but I've already had two crashes in the first day of use.
  - etchalon 3y ago
    It's 100% stable for me. I'm on an M3 Max, latest macOS.
hyperhello 3y ago
CodeRunner is a miracle (you need the beta for Sonoma).
BruceEel 3y ago
Textmate for me. I've tried BBEdit and SlickEdit too but I couldn't really get into either, shame because I really like the idea of supporting smaller, independent vendors. Funny thing, for years I wanted to have UltraEdit for Mac but when they finally delivered it I did not like it (much.)
steezeburger 3y ago
I use GoLand, RustRover, and PyCharm for most things, and got work to pay for it. But if I'm just opening a project to look quickly or browsing code or opening a single file, then I use zed (https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/). It's super duper fast and quite minimal but with all the features I need. It's great.
eddyg 3y ago
CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source. https://coteditor.com/ https://coteditor.com/ https://github.com/coteditor/ https://github.com/coteditor/
ssbash 3y ago
Nova and Sublime. BBEdit seems philosophically opposed to adding the option for vim key bindings. I occasionally use VSCode for specific extensions or languages.

BBEdit. I’ve been through a few… TextMate, Sublime. Used various IDEs heavily at various points. Used VS Code. Used Emacs (+ accumulated a long .emacs). Used Vim. BBEdit is the general go-to for me on the Mac. On Linux, it’s Emacs. In the terminal, it’s Vim. Back in the 1990s, BBEdit completely outclassed IDEs and most other editors. I’d even have a project open in an IDE, but be editing the source code in BBEdit. BBEdit could send commands to the open IDE to compile or run your project. Other editors have mostly caught up to 1990s BBEdit, so it’s not such a big deal any more, but it’s still a solid editor.

JKCalhoun 3y ago

BBEdit and Visual Studio Code.

petesergeant 3y ago

Sublime as a general editor, VS Code for when I need more language support

drcongo 3y ago
Sublime, but I have high hopes for Zed

jwells89 3y ago

Sublime for the most part. Will occasionally fire up TextMate though just because its UI is kinda comfy for me, being the first editor of its kind that I used back in the heyday of Rails.

etchalon 3y ago

Nova (https://nova.app https://nova.app) It's so close to being great.

tonyedgecombe 3y ago
I'm trying it again but I've already had two crashes in the first day of use.
- etchalon 3y ago
  It's 100% stable for me. I'm on an M3 Max, latest macOS.

hyperhello 3y ago

CodeRunner is a miracle (you need the beta for Sonoma).

BruceEel 3y ago

Textmate for me. I've tried BBEdit and SlickEdit too but I couldn't really get into either, shame because I really like the idea of supporting smaller, independent vendors. Funny thing, for years I wanted to have UltraEdit for Mac but when they finally delivered it I did not like it (much.)

steezeburger 3y ago

I use GoLand, RustRover, and PyCharm for most things, and got work to pay for it. But if I'm just opening a project to look quickly or browsing code or opening a single file, then I use zed (https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/). It's super duper fast and quite minimal but with all the features I need. It's great.

eddyg 3y ago

CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source. https://coteditor.com/ https://coteditor.com/ https://github.com/coteditor/ https://github.com/coteditor/

ssbash 3y ago

Nova and Sublime. BBEdit seems philosophically opposed to adding the option for vim key bindings. I occasionally use VSCode for specific extensions or languages.