For me it doesn’t matter if they are saying they are invested in it or not. All that matters is the outcome. For me, a critical app that isn’t really feature-complete compared to other editors for my stack that just got its second update of the year isn’t worth paying for. Happy to use VS Code for $0, or recently I moved to Cursor and happily pay per year.
Any news on this (were you talking the public beta)?
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The further it gets, the funnier it seems. At this point I honestly don’t know how huge and useful Nova 12 update must be to at least drop temperature down a bit. Seems so wasted.
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Something is still seriously wrong - the public beta was announced for the beginning of September, it’s already October, and there is no information.
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I wish there were more updates. I bought nova last year October and there hasn’t been single major update to Nova in whole year.
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I’m replying just to counteract the negativity, because I’m happy with Nova and looking forward to the new update.
I recommend choosing software on what it does for you today, instead of always pining for future updates.
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And I think this is just uncalled for.
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If you’ve been in his position, which as I stated, I have, it’s perfectly reasonable.
I’m happy to hear an alternate explanation. But my experience building commercial web sites since 1997 says otherwise.
It is reinforced by the fact that we haven’t actually heard from Panic management backing him up.
It is reinforced by the fact that we haven’t actually heard from Panic management backing him up.
One of Panic’s founders literally replied in this thread?
At the end of the day, I suppose it comes down to how much goodwill you are willing to extend to a company. For those of us who’ve been in the Mac sphere for decades, there are a handful of small companies, Panic among them, who’ve earned a lot of goodwill. Sure, it’d have been good to have a couple more point updates between March and September of this year, but I’m just having trouble seeing how “OMG it’s been five whole months between updates Nova is dead and Panic’s HQ building is on fire GET TO THE LIFEBOATS” is truly the appropriate reaction. (Also, do not go to the lifeboats if the building is on fire, because you have mixed your metaphor.)
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This thread started with a perfectly sensible inquiry based on Panic’s very public actions which resemble pivoting to a games company. Hyperbolizing what other people wrote into Reddit-grade falsehoods does no service to this discussion.
It’s not like Panic hasn’t discontinued programs before. 75% of Panic’s current products are games, plus a game console. And with the company only tasking one employee with working on Nova, it seems perfectly sensible to ask questions.
Many of us use Panic for business. We need to plan ahead, future-proof our workflows, and justify our purchasing decisions to our managers. It took me two years to convince my company to let me start using Panic products instead of Microsoft. And every time the renewal comes up, I have to justify my loyalty.
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12b1 is available, though i’ve chosen to take part
Wanted to share my 2-cents and say I still enjoy Nova and hope development continues. I will happily subscribe to Nova mainly because it is native and UI and design is really good.
Just install Nova 12b1 and Open quickly improvements have fixed my biggest issue with Nova 11, which was slow lookup and ambiguous results. So thank you.
I would agree that better communication on updates and roadmap would certainly help things, but I understand if that isn’t easy to do.
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