CodeEdit for macOS - Interview with Austin Condiff

CodeEdit is a code editor written entirely and unapologetically for macOS. Being lightweight as TextEdit but powerful as Xcode, CodeEdit project has gained about 10 thousand stars on GitHub.

Let's discuss why this project is so popular with it's creator, Austin Condiff.


CodeEdit:
https://github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeEdit/
  / codeeditapp  


Follow Austin on social media:
https://www.austincondiff.com/
https://github.com/austincondiff
  / austincondiff  

Follow Richard on social media:
  / richardtop_ios  
https://t.me/richardtop
https://github.com/richardtop/


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0:00 - About Austin Condiff
2:24 - Why CodeEdit became so popular?
4:05 - The problem with editors on macOS
7:52 - Are all electron apps bad, or are some just poorly written?
10:56 - Relation to Xcode
11:53 - Designing to be "at home" on mac
13:25 - What tasks CodeEdit is for?
14:25 - Trend of lightweight text editors in favor of IDEs
16:35 - Extensions & Modularity
21:05 - Qualities of Apple Design
22:35 - Keeping developers "in the zone"
27:58 - How easy is to learn Swift?
30:23 - What inspires you?
34:43 - Tips for open source contributors?
38:32 - Learning to code with open source projects
41:10 - What would be success for CodeEdit?
42:57 - "Invisible" user interfaces
44:20 - Holistic design in Apple products
47:30 - Thoughts on TouchBar
55:38 - Question for Steve Jobs