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Nova… reconsidered
I was willing to turn a blind eye to other issues, e.g. the fact that the documentation for its custom syntax support is horrible and implementing simple embedded syntaxes is either impossible or nightmarishly difficult (or, perhaps, perfectly easy but just not documented).
The thing I really like about Nova is having everything in one window on a gigantic screen and the fact Nova remembers my exact window layout. So I can have my file browser, editor, terminal, web preview and debugger, excellent git integration (honestly, it's almost like having Sublime Merge—a git client I like so much I tend to run it all the time just to do things like amend commits and spelunk history—built into the editor).
But if your app needs to do authentication in a popup window, Nova's web preview doesn't handle it, so that's partially out the window, which makes it less attractive for my "day job".
I really want to love Nova, but the instability and flaky syntax hiliting are a bridge too far. At least for my day job… for now.
— Tonio Loewald, 10/25/2023
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