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Nova vs VSCodium: What are the differences?
Nova: The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor. 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; VSCodium: Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode. It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.
Nova and VSCodium can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by Nova are:
- A powerful editor
- A themeable interface
- Flexible workflows
On the other hand, VSCodium provides the following key features:
- Open Source
- No Microsoft tracking
- VSCode extensions compatible
VSCodium is an open source tool with 10.8K GitHub stars and 352 GitHub forks. Here's a link to VSCodium's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Nova
- Extensions1
- Beautiful1
- Fluid and Fast1
Pros of VSCodium
- Simple and intuitive UI6
- Community-driven6
- Open source6
- Intellisense5
- Powerful multilanguage IDE4
- Terminal4
- Fast4
- Good Plugins4
- Crossplatform4
- Git integration4
- Privacy4
- Powerful3
- Extensions3
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Cons of Nova
- Mac only1
Cons of VSCodium
- Some extentions can't be isntalled direclty from IDE2
