Favorite text editors update: manton.org

@manton Nice praise of Nova, I am a recent Nova adopter (RIP Atom) and also know I’ve barely scratched the surface. It took me a very long time to decide on what I was going to use once I decided to start writing code again. Nova not only seems polished but I liked that it is a Panic product.

@manton I really want to use Nova more but I use the VS Code Remote Dev feature so often i can’t afford not to use it.

@manton

Thanks for sharing.

I still am a big fan of Joplin, but I'm not a developer. So, my preferences are
- open source
- sync enable
- encrypted
- Markdown compliant

@anniegreens Me too. Panic is the perfect company to maintain this kind of app. Feels like a good foundation.

@manton Nova user as well! I was able to migrate all of my keyboard shortcuts and workflows from SublimeText almost from release day. So glad Panic makes this app. I do find that it has a hard time with huge files, so I probably should purchase BBEdit for those.

@manton I tried nova for a bit, but it seems really heavy for being called a text editor. Isn’t it a full-blown IDE?

@jmanes It’s sort of in between. It can be used as a text editor or more like an IDE.

@manton Also a fan of Nova, mainly for websites and anything that’s not Go related. I haven’t looked at any of the build/IDE features it offers but for simple to mildly-complex text editing, it works really well.

@lmika I’m curious, what do you use for Go?

@manton I personally use Goland by JetBrains for Go projects. It’s a little expensive but it’s a pretty decent IDE for Go applications. Many of my coworkers use VSCode, which is also pretty decent for Go.

@ovr I’ve used it on the iPad. I’m not sure I realized there was a Mac version.