[michaelmarion]

Seems like Panic is billing Nova as a text editor only—not necessarily an IDE. They’d have to add in functionality for a whole host of other things to make that a reality, including compilation, build, debugging, and so on. I doubt all of that can be done with their build scripts and extension framework alone, but, hey—I’ve been wrong before.

The state of the IDE landscape on Mac amazes me. It seems like there a $#!*-ton of Java/C++ developers using standard-issue MacBooks at Big Corp, Inc. who are staring at ugly IntelliJ windows for eight hours a day.

If there was a native-feeling, good-looking IDE for the Mac I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t print money. (Or if XCode ever decided to branch out beyond honest-to-goodness support for things other than Objective-C and Swift...)

[AMC11]

Is IntelliJ generally considered ugly?

[brailsafe]

IntelliJ is definitely ugly, but not quite as bad as NetBeans or Eclipse. It's really powerful though and I prefer WebStorm and PyCharm for a number of things. I think it's because of how complex the interface is, combined with looking like a cross-platform app. It feels to me like I'm using a Windows app that happens to run on mac.