> This showed that fundamentally, a terminal-based text editor is trivial to build. I do not agree. There is a big difference between a proof-of-concept termin

> This showed that fundamentally, a terminal-based text editor is trivial to build. I do not agree. There is a big difference between a proof-of-concept terminal-based text editor and a state-of-the-art development editor like vim or emacs. I really encourage people to write a proof-of-concept "self-hosting" editor (i.e. writing the later parts of your text editor in a reasonable stable version of your text editor) as it is a fun project.