I've been using nova for a little while now and not entirely sure how I feel about it. Coda has been around for a long time, and was a great little editor you could use on iOS, mostly focussing on web development. This is a fairly new text editor released by the same people who created Coda. This was my number 1 text editor for a long time, and I'm sure that's the same for many other developers out there.
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I also don't own this app myself so I used the trial version for my tests. It's not free though, but very well priced. Written in C, so it's a native app, and super light weight. It's THE standard for which all editors should be compared. This is a popular choice for a lot of people and has been around for a very long time (like since the early 90s?). It's just that, because Electron, you've already used up about 300mb of ram for just launching the app in an empty state.
In fact most of the text editors on this list are perfectly fine. If I wanted something bloated, I would just use Xcode. These things should be speedy, with just enough features to get the job done. It's not as light weight as I like in a text editor.
Up until recently, this was my text editor of choice. It calls itself "A hackable text editor for the 21st century". To do this, we'll need to do some stress testing, so let's meet our competitiors. If you would rather watch a video on this subject, I've got that covered for you A highly specific question, and unlike asking "what's the best text editor for programmers?", this one we can answer with almost 100% objectivity.