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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.
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Pros of VSCodium
Pros of Nova
- Extensions1
- Beautiful1
- Fluid and Fast1
Pros of VSCodium
- Open source6
- Intellisense5
- Community-driven5
- Simple and intuitive UI5
- Crossplatform4
- Git integration4
- Powerful multilanguage IDE4
- Privacy4
- Terminal4
- Good Plugins4
- Fast4
- Powerful3
- Extensions3
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Cons of Nova
Cons of VSCodium
Cons of Nova
- Mac only1
Cons of VSCodium
- Some extentions can't be isntalled direclty from IDE2
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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.
What is VSCodium?
It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.
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What are some alternatives to Nova and VSCodium?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.