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Yesterday Panic Software released Nova 10. Nova is a text editor, it competes with Vim and VSCode. This release re-affirms the commitment Panic has made to this product, matches the best features of VSCode, and most importantly integrates Tree Sitter for vastly improved syntax highlighting.

At Code for Boston we used to say we’re not a good place to learn to code, but we can be a good place to go from having done a bootcamp to coding on a team. This worked well for a long time, but no longer seems to.

• Bootcamps have reduced or even eliminated backend development from their curriculums.
• Novice and even intermediate developers struggle to switch programming languages.
• Bootcamps have gotten better at holding students hands, but this means graduates are less used to learning independently.

Last week I asked Twitter if there the 10x programmer is real:

Is there really such thing as a 10x developer? Why or why not?

— Matt Zagaja (@mzagaja) October 21, 2022

While the consensus from a few followers was no, the research does not quite agree.