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Nova vs Micro : What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Micro ? Modern terminal-based text editor. Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.
Nova and Micro can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.
Micro is an open source tool with 15K GitHub stars and 729 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Micro 's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Micro
- It feels like a GUI-based editor ... in a terminal4
- Easy to use3
- Supports traditional ctrl shortcuts and copyboard1
Pros of Nova
- Extensions1
- Beautiful1
- Fluid and Fast1
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Cons of Micro
Cons of Nova
- Mac only1
