BBEdit.

I’ve been through a few… TextMate, Sublime. Used various IDEs heavily at various points. Used VS Code. Used Emacs (+ accumulated a long .emacs). Used Vim.

BBEdit is the general go-to for me on the Mac. On Linux, it’s Emacs. In the terminal, it’s Vim.

Back in the 1990s, BBEdit completely outclassed IDEs and most other editors. I’d even have a project open in an IDE, but be editing the source code in BBEdit. BBEdit could send commands to the open IDE to compile or run your project. Other editors have mostly caught up to 1990s BBEdit, so it’s not such a big deal any more, but it’s still a solid editor.

Nova (https://nova.app)

It's so close to being great.

Sublime for the most part. Will occasionally fire up TextMate though just because its UI is kinda comfy for me, being the first editor of its kind that I used back in the heyday of Rails.

CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source.

https://coteditor.com/

https://github.com/coteditor/

I use GoLand, RustRover, and PyCharm for most things, and got work to pay for it.

But if I'm just opening a project to look quickly or browsing code or opening a single file, then I use zed (https://zed.dev/). It's super duper fast and quite minimal but with all the features I need. It's great.

Textmate for me. I've tried BBEdit and SlickEdit too but I couldn't really get into either, shame because I really like the idea of supporting smaller, independent vendors. Funny thing, for years I wanted to have UltraEdit for Mac but when they finally delivered it I did not like it (much.)

Nova and Sublime.

BBEdit seems philosophically opposed to adding the option for vim key bindings.

I occasionally use VSCode for specific extensions or languages.

BBEdit and Visual Studio Code.

Sublime as a general editor, VS Code for when I need more language support

CodeRunner is a miracle (you need the beta for Sonoma).