The second Fleet Preview update in 2023 is available for download. The following are some of the most noteworthy changes:



A bug that caused code syntax highlighting to flicker during rename refacto

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Fleet Preview update 1.14 includes UI-related changes and more News Releases. A bug that caused code syntax highlighting to flicker during rename refactoring has been fixed. The ability to have up to 2 side panels on each side of Fleet’s main window has been added.

Fleet Preview update 1.14 includes UI-related changes and more

The most important info :
PS. Plugins support and plugins API is a work in progress.

is this going to be a VS Code competitor?

Looks like VS code finally gona have a worthy opponent and the battle will be legendry (Pun intended 😆) .