When comparing Write for Mac vs IntelliJ IDEA, the Slant community recommends IntelliJ IDEA for most people. In the question“What are the best Markdown editors for OS X?” IntelliJ IDEA is ranked 23rd while Write for Mac is ranked 42nd.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean. Beautiful. Distraction Free.
Pro Synchronizes with iCloud and Dropbox
Can be synchronized with iCloud and Dropbox.
Pro Great UI
Pro Great Java Support
Pro A good editor for test-driven development
IntelliJ IDEA is really easy to work with when it comes to test-driven development in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript.
Pro Great JavaScript support
Pro Markdown support with preview
Pro Supports PHP quite well
Pro Great TypeScript support
Really good support for importing classes, libraries, etc. into a typescript class. Making it easy to do TDD.
Pro Good BASH script support
Pro Angular CLI support
Pro Made by developers for developers
It can make one more efficient, but also can get one way too used to shortcuts, autocomplete, and easy debugging.
Cons
Con Attempting to download it results in an error, webmaster e-mail is dead
This app may not be maintained anymore. The download attempt from its site failed and so did an attempt to report it to the webmaster.
Con Crashes with keystrokes managers like Typinator
Con Is not free
But it does have a free version (Community Edition).
Con Heavy
Consumes more resources than VSCode etc. But depending on your use-case, it can still be worth it for the benefits you get with this editor.
Con Autocomplete does not work while IntelliJ is indexing
But this, in general, is not much of an issue. Usually after npm install, etc.