Compromising function for form

Over the past few months, I have been using Nova, a native Mac code editor by Panic. Needless to say, if you know anything about Panic, you’ll know that Nova it’s a gorgeous piece of software.

It’s a little effort of mine to “go back to native apps” instead of clogging up my memory from all of these web apps, or Electron wrappers.

Is it working?

Well, that’s debatable.

The main thing about Nova is that I was very used to VSCode, and many of the shortcuts are different from one to the other, so there’s an adjusting period. Also, the way things function (menus, and other parts of the app) are different. There are not many extensions as well, which is annoying. Very annoying.

But these are all things I can put behind, because the editor is gorgeous, it’s native, and fulfills my development needs—which aren’t many.

Can’t forget the fact that this particular editor does not integrate with AI, or steal your code without your explicit consent. I’m good with a private software I can pay once, and use forever, much like I did with Sketch.

I mean, aren’t you tired of this culture of: you either pay a monthly subscription, or we will steal all your data? And sometimes we will steal your data anyway, even if you’re paying a hefty monthly price.