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#1 2020-10-05 10:39:55
- gaekwad
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IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
Good day to you, web developer type people.
I have the now-annual urges to get back into website development now the daylight hours are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere.
What’s your preferred IDE / text editor of choice at the moment, please? I need to look beyond Atom since development has slowed somewhat since GitHub was acquired. Bonus points for: works on macOS, open source (or buy once), extensible.
I’m drawn to Nova since Panic are great at what they do, but the $ is beyond me at the moment considering how little dev-ing I do.
Thanks in advance.
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#2 2020-10-05 11:14:54
- phiw13
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
- BBEdit, it still does not suck. free or subscription in the App Store, free or one time buy from their site (till the next major upgrade, roughly every 2 years)
- SubEthaEdit, free in the App Store
I am not interested in those applications that update every other day to add… nothing (looking at your Firefox of late).
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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#3 2020-10-05 11:33:28
- philwareham
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
I’m using Panic Nova now – very nice so far (it’s basically Coda updated for 2020 with all the modern features I could hope for – such as multiple cursors, finally!). The HTML syntax plays pretty well with Textpattern templates too (although someone with good regex skills could probably build a proper TXP code completion extension).
All my old Coda clips carried over perfectly as well.
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#4 2020-10-06 03:35:53
- code365
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
I am using VS Code very lite weight editor and free.
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#5 2020-10-06 08:00:50
- Algaris
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#6 2020-10-06 10:36:37
- gaekwad
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
Perfect – thank you very much!
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#7 2020-10-06 12:26:47
- philwareham
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#8 2020-10-06 17:02:06
- michaelkpate
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
code365 wrote #326231:
I am using VS Code very lite weight editor and free.
VS Code is my editor of choice, too – I’ve tried some of the others but I gravitate toward this one.
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#9 2020-10-07 00:32:51
- bici
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#10 2020-10-07 00:58:59
- phiw13
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
Algaris wrote #326235:
[…] not built on Electron.
Yes, that is the condition sine qua non for any editor worth its weight[*]. Nova does not look bad, a tad pricey maybe. Especially as I have absolutely no need for a new editor, BBEdit works perfectly.
BTW, this is amusing: 5GUIs
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#11 2020-10-07 08:01:25
- Algaris
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
phiw13 wrote #326245:
BTW, this is amusing: 5GUIs
Haha. That is amusing. I especially like the comments on Electron Apps. It’s interesting that the app can’t figure out what framework Google Chrome is using.
phiw13 wrote #326245:
Yes, that is the condition sine qua non for any editor worth its weight.
I could go off on a rant that people don’t build proper native macOS apps that look and feel like they belong on macOS these days. I won’t though because I know there are some companies that still thankfully do and I don’t want to feel like I’m yelling “Get of my lawn” at all of the non native app developers. Also it’s somewhat off topic for the thread ;-)
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#12 2020-10-07 09:24:00
- philwareham
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Re: IDE / text editor of choice, Q4 2020 edition
Really, Atom is the worst though, in large part because of Electron. Messy UI, bad general performance, reliance on Chromium engine, etc. And ~750MB of disk space for a text editor, hmmm.
The only Electron app I use now is GitHub Desktop, and that’s only because I’m lazy.
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