Fine, I'll build my own text editor
29 points - yesterday at 5:12 PM
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nottorp today at 5:21 AM
There really is a fps counter on there.
Is the experiment seriously rendering continuously in a loop?
pmkary today at 4:42 AM
Text editors are like mechanical watches or fountain pens. There is just so much beauty in the machinery that makes them. For me, there are hardly any other modules that are this satisfying to watch being made. Each time I find a new one (a good one like this), with everything on ropes and rendering and I-beam placement computations and ... it feels like a Christmas gift.
samus today at 5:19 AM
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dang today at 3:52 AM
Recent and related:
They don't make 'em like Sublime Text anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209354 - Aug 2026 (13 comments)
self_awareness today at 4:52 AM
Text editing is a solved problem.
It's not about the style of cursor, or if rope is used or not. We already have answers to that.
It's about remote editing, LSP support.
anon291 today at 4:14 AM
I am being pushed to use vs code right now by my team, but we already have a fully programmable and scriptable editor called emacs that is 100000x better. I don't understand why everyone just switches to these random tools. Text editing is a solved problem. Most of the supposed advantages of these tools is just a configuration of vim or emacs.