Alternative Text Editors and IDEs for macOS

We all love our text editor or IDE of choice, but sometimes it's too easy to get stuck in a rut using the same one because it's comfortable, and it might be worth challenging yourself with something new.

In this video, I look at seven alternatives, old and new, macOS-native and cross-platform, feature-packed and more focused, to see if there's anything I might consider to wake myself from my VSCode-shaped hole.

Includes Jetbrains' Fleet, Nova, BBEdit, Cursor, CotEditor, CodeEdit, and Chime.

And yes, I ignored Vim, emacs, nano, etc. There you go 🤷‍♂️

00:00 Intro
03:22 CodeEdit
08:00 Chime
12:12 Fleet
19:26 Nova
30:00 CotEditor
33:04 Cursor
37:35 BBEdit
46:25 Summary