The current best option for a native editor on macOS is still Sublime Text (now 4). It's not purely native as not using all the core Apple frameworks, but it still does the job and finally has support for LSP which is the major feature you would expect from a code editor today.<p>Congrats for providing another option: If well done and providing a user experience which is close enough (including visually) to vscode, that could be a compelling option. Don't forget LSP and just provide a native implementation of something that looks like vscode (which was designed after Sublime), not a different UI altogether.
These days not having Copilot is a pretty big productivity hit to me. The other day Copilot somehow stopped offering completions for maybe an hour, and I was pretty shocked to realize how much I've grown to rely on just hitting tab to complete the whole line. (I was writing Go at the time which is on the boilerplatey side among the mainstream languages, so Copilot is particularly effective there. Auto-completion from gopls — the language server — is no match.) I'm officially spoiled.<p>I'm afraid small independent code editors are increasingly fighting uphill battles as the big ones roll out support for more and more productivity boosts like LSP and Copilot integration.
Forgive my ignorance, but what's the difference between this and VS code? Other than look, feel, and architecture. or is it merely a for fun project?<p>I'm using vs code or vim and tmux as daily editor (except for java which i use IntelliJ) and have been very comfortable with it. I used to try different editors back in the days just to explore for fun, but now when you want to get the work done, it'll be very time consuming to switch editors, map keys, themes, setup, etc.<p>either way, congrats for the new cool project!
Related question: What's people's preferred diff tool for code and directories of code on macOS? I haven't found one I liked since the Catalina update killed 32-bit apps.
At some point, the question has to be asked (and this is not directed at CodeEdit, but this prompted my question)... do we need another editor?<p>We have a very crowded editor market place. There seems(?) to be enough competition to drive innovation, and most(?) support plugins/extensions for devs to tailor to their needs (as opposed to swapping editors for a killer feature).<p>I also think there is a benefit to a team using the same editor for a project. This allows checking in of editor-specific files that increase productivity (We check in our .vscode folder with recommended extensions, on save actions, launch configs etc)<p>What do you think? Am I missing something here?<p>[Edit: To be clear, I'm personally not in the camp of "no more editors pleases", just was interested in seeing others thoughts here]