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The group of people chasing the javascript framework of the week, writing text editors in javascript.
by ksherlock 11y ago
The group of people chasing the javascript framework of the week, writing text editors in javascript.
- nickpsecurity 11y ago"writing text editors in javascript" Just 5-10 years ago, that might have been considered a joke. Now I wonder if you're referring to a specific project. And if it's already deployed as a Droplet. ;)
- unimpressive 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29
- nickpsecurity 11y agoUnreal...
- chris_wot 11y agohttps://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/12/mozilla-and-epic-preview-unreal-engine-4-running-in-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/12/mozilla-and-epic-pr...
- nickpsecurity 11y agoOh I've seen plenty of JS stuff. That was the most incredible one I knew of. But a friggin text editor given all platforms have several good ones? And with less bugs & MB than a browser. I mean, come on...
- eru 11y agoGoogle basically rewrote MS Office in Javascript. (And Microsoft rewrote the real MS Office in Javascript.) Text editors are pretty tame beasts by comparison.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoNice little pissing contest they have going on haha. I wonder if the rewrite (a) resulted in eliminating inefficiencies in MS Office code to make up for JS overhead or (b) led them to advise old strategy of telling users to buy better hardware. Which was it?