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Notepad++ vs Nova: What are the differences?

# Notepad++ vs. Nova

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1. **Code Editing Features**: Notepad++ is primarily a text editor with basic code editing capabilities, while Nova is a full-fledged code editor specifically designed for web and software development, offering advanced features like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and code folding.
2. **Platform Compatibility**: Notepad++ is limited to Windows operating system, whereas Nova is compatible with macOS and Windows, making it more versatile for developers using different platforms.
3. **Customization Options**: Notepad++ allows limited customization through plugins and themes, whereas Nova offers extensive customization options through extensions, themes, and snippets, allowing developers to tailor the editor to their workflows.
4. **Debugger Integration**: Nova has built-in debugging support, allowing developers to debug their code directly within the editor, which is not available in Notepad++ without the use of external tools or plugins.
5. **Collaboration Tools**: Nova supports collaboration features like Live Share and Git integration, enabling developers to easily work together on projects, while Notepad++ lacks these built-in collaboration tools.
6. **Performance and Stability**: Nova is built on modern technologies and offers better performance and stability compared to Notepad++, which can sometimes be prone to crashes and slow performance, especially with large files.

In Summary, Notepad++ is a basic text editor with code editing capabilities, while Nova is a more comprehensive code editor designed specifically for developers, offering advanced features, platform compatibility, customization options, and collaboration tools. Nova also provides better performance and stability compared to Notepad++.
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Pros of Notepad++
Pros of Nova
  • 103
    Syntax for all languages that i use
  • 59
    Tabbed ui
  • 56
    Great code editor
  • 53
    Fast and lightweight
  • 38
    Plugins
  • 28
    Nice GUI
  • 26
    Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
  • 16
    Fast startup
  • 9
    Application is free, and plugins are too
  • 9
    Themes
  • 6
    Free
  • 4
    Very Lightweight
  • 3
    100% Free
  • 2
    Column selection
  • 1
    Awesome autocomplete
  • 1
    Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)
  • 1
    Cos it's seck
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    Nice gui. are you kidding me?
  • 1
    Open Sourced
  • 1
    Extensions
  • 1
    Beautiful
  • 1
    Fluid and Fast

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Cons of Notepad++
Cons of Nova
  • 3
    No default plugin manager
  • 2
    Can't install more advanced packets
  • 1
    Mac only

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What is Notepad++?

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

What is Nova?

It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac.

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What are some alternatives to Notepad++ and Nova?
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
UltraEdit
It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
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