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Pro Recipes are simple and easy to use
The recipes themselves are Ruby scripts and are small, simple to understand and easy to create and modify.
Pro Builds quickly and requires few dependencies
Homebrew as much as possible uses already existing libraries and tools to install software thus making builds quick and requiring few dependencies.
Pro Less maintenance than Macports
Macports seems to be able to get into a bad state where new packages are unable to be installed, or installed software was unable to be updated. This simply hasn't happened with Homebrew. In addition to not having to deal with corruption problems, Homebrew installs packages in userland. Not...
Con Command line tools for XCode required
Once xcode is installed you can install Homebrew, including new(er)/different versions of most of the build stuff that xcode-select installed, like a newer gcc, newer git, etc.
Con May cause issues when trying to create symlinks or installing in places where SIP has changed permissions
One of the things to like about Homebrew is that it refuses to run things under sudo most of the time. This is a great policy, but it causes issues when you want to create symlinks or install in places that SIP has changed permissions on. (Alternatively, you could install Homebrew somewhere other...
Pro Split Panes
Divide a tab up into multiple panes, each one of which shows a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement. enter image description here Notice how inactive panes are slightly dimmed so it's easy to see which is...
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Pro Powerful
Can view and edit massive files (10k+ lines) smoothly.
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Pro Free
Free to use without registration. After 30 days, it requires registration (which is also free).
Pro Consistent UI across platforms
SourceTree is great for working in a cross-platform environment as it has the exact same UI on Windows as it has on OS X.
Con Obscures the fundamentals of git
In my experience, people who rely on this tool struggle to understand how git actually works. Much better to simply use the command line, and then perhaps move to this utility after you have that mastered. (Side note: I've never known a developer who moved to SourceTree after learning git on t...
Con Information density can be a bit much
It's possible to be overwhelmed with the information density presented in Sourcetree. Especially in history view since it includes a lot of data presented in various ways. It's great for getting a comprehensive overview of everything that's happening in one place, but it can take some...
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Con Abandoned
Raised funds and abandoned the project.
Pro Beautiful
I think Tower looks just so much better, cleaner than other git apps. Even if it doesn't you make work faster, it sure is a pleasure to use and look at.
Pro Simple
Tower was the first GUI for git that made sense to me, and I've come to love it's intuitive way of staging and committing parts of the changes in the working directory.
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Pro Ready to use out of the box
You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered.
Pro Updated frequently
There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily.
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Pro Lots of plugins
TextMate has an API that allows for users and developers to create plugins.
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Pro Customizable
Developer tools allow changing the theme and other settings on the fly.
Con Slow
Still not as fast as Sublime Text and is noticeably less fast.
Pro Great support from the community
The community is very active and there is a welcoming gitter chat to ask for questions.
Pro Mnemonic and consistent key bindings
Key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces, for instance buffer actions are under b, file actions under f, project actions under p, search actions under s etc... Key bindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions.
Con High CPU and unresponsive at times
There are occasions when Spacemacs would suddenly consume a LOT of CPU and at other times would become completely unresponsive. Restarting Spacemacs would always fix it for a while. It was just really unstable and this was only 6 months or so ago. May be fixed in newer versions.
Con Functionality layers of complicate configuration
To configure spacemacs, settings for Emacs/Evil/Spacemacs may need editing. Its not always clear which need to be changed or how to change settings globally, sometimes hooks are needed, other time spacemacs provides options.
Pro Easy to install
Just head to AppStore and install it for free.
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Con No support for commit signing
While Github itself offers full support and UI decorators for cryptographically signed commits, the Mac client does not support it, and errors out when trying to commit anything if you have signing enabled.
Pro incredibly customizable
You can customize and automate pretty much any task that involves text manipulation using BBEdit.
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Con No tabs
Tabs can be installed as a third party plugin but it does not support this by default
Pro Rich text format for writing and sync easily with Dropbox
Rich text format (Links, Photos, any other resource to insert into notes) Sync with Dropbox easily Export to PDF, RTFD, HTML Future features Markdown writting support Link: http://www.pixelegg.me/elk
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