Hey everybody. I was wondering if anybody here has used Panic’s Nova editor.
It came out recently and I saw there was no Elixir Formatter extension, so I built one. This extension depends on another general Elixir language support extension.
Hopefully this helps out any Elixir devs who want to try out the new editor. Happy coding!
Yup, it’s really cool. Unfortunately the Elixir extension that adds syntax highlighting doesn’t do a very good job so I won’t be using it until either someone makes a better one, improves the existing one, or I stumble into enough free time to do it myself. 
Yeah I recently tried this one out. Looks quite promising but as it’s quite new it still lacks support for most of my daily use languages. Would totally give it a try and even consider switching from VSCode if Elixir support would be better (language server integration) and if the TypeScript extension would not crash the editor 
I’m not sure if he’s published it yet, but Carl Brand on the Elixir Slack has started on an ElixirLS extension for Nova, and has made some headway.
Hey, it has been published but Nova seems to be handling the language server implementation differently. The code is on GitHub if anyone wants to contribute - it’s my first extension so might be going in the wrong direction. Nova just implemented the Snippets protocol for language servers but still isn’t working correctly so investigating that right now.
Great! Can you post a link to the code on GitHub?
Sure you can find the repo at: https://github.com/brandc87/nova-elixirls
@pinksynth suggested we combine the formatter in one extension but not rely on the language server and invoke mix format so I’m just about to push changes for that
Hands down this is the most snappy editor on the macOS and native experience is brilliant.
Looks like it’s come on a fair bit since I last saw it - might have to give it a go again 
It was on sale earlier this year as well - not sure why I didn’t pick it up then!
Think it might have been because:
I notice they have some options to turn most of that off now:
But still, every time I open it and a document it wants to connect to Gravatar! Why!?
Lolwhut
Social features for the editor should be optional. They have super decent customer support - try to shoot an email.
Not sure why pulling avatars (probably as part of their git integration) is so unexpected. They could’ve used gitlab/github APIs, but those will expectedly only work for github/gitlab users.
Not everyone uses gh or gl 
I feel any cloud or social features really should be opt in.
I like how TextMate never connects to the web unless you have updates switched on or if you need to install a bundle:
I don’t like how apps want to dial home or connect to some service just because you happen to open/use it - every time your machine connects to them they have your IP address and potentially store a record of your activities/usage. Imo apps should only ever connect to the web if they either clearly need to in order to function (eg, a social network or chat app) or if you specifically allow the request…
How is Elixir support in Nova now? When I tried it a while ago it wasn’t great and syntax highlighting was weird.
VS Code’s git lens extension has avatars, probably something similar
There are several extensions that add support for Elixir, the most recent one seems to be GitHub - raulchedrese/nova-elixir-ls: Elixir Language Server extension for Nova. which uses the elixir-ls. I’ve been trying it out for a few days, and it works OK overall. I’ve experienced some minor glitches with formatters, but nothing too major. I really love the look and feel of Nova, so definitely hoping for the plugin to continue to get updates 
Has anyone tried this editor for Elixir/Phoenix work?
VSCode lately has been destroying my battery life and I’m just curious about a fully native app.
I am and it has been a bit rough. I like the native “feel” and the terminal integration (although the latter is not perfect). But language extension support is pretty bad. I haven’t been able to get autocompletions or snippets to work well at all, and even syntax highlighting is kind of wonky.
Nova being Mac-only: Having a native editor can work wonders for performance and integration, but I advice to use a multi-OS (mac,win, linux) solution. If you ever need to switch OS at least you don’t have to start from scratch.
So no; never used for Phoenix 
I want to like Nova but every time I did a trial version I just encountered too many little quirks to really embrace it. After the death of Atom I switched to Zed for the past few months but it’s still a bit underbaked at this point so I’m considering a switch to Nova again.
Yes, I’ve been using Nova every day for about 9 months. I love using a Mac editor written by Mac developers.
Autocompletion works better as of the last couple releases:
Snippets work for me too:
It’s definitely not as feature-rich as some other editors, and there are still definitely bugs and quirks, but I enjoy using it personally.
Nova has tree-sitter support but I find that this and most other things that use tree-sitter-elixir have bad syntax highlighting since they don’t implement the queries like tree-sitter-elixir/highlights.scm at main · elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir · GitHub
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