Solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. During beta we found someīugs in Apple's text layout engine that we just could not fix. It's also very expandable, with a robust API and a built-in Tag pairs and brackets, and way, way more.įor the curious, Nova has built-in support for CoffeeScript, CSS, Diff, ERB, Haml, HTML, INI, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, Less, Lua, Markdown, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Sass, SCSS, Smarty, SQL, TSX, TypeScript, XML, and YAML. Smart autocomplete, multiple cursors, a Minimap, editor overscroll, It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: It all starts with our first-class text-editor.
Web was today, and where we needed to be. But when we started work on Nova, we looked at where the Long ago, we created Coda, an all-in-one Mac web editor that broke FoundedĪs a Mac software company in 1997, our joy at Panic comes fromīuilding things that feel truly, well, Mac-like.
They're cross-platform - but it's just not who we are. There are great reasons to make cross-platform apps - to start, If we're being honest, Mac apps are a bit of a lost art.
