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Writing a vi clone in any language is worth a "Show HN" by itself, and "not being vi" is justification enough for a toy project. For me personally "i did a X c
by scardine 9y ago
Writing a vi clone in any language is worth a "Show HN" by itself, and "not being vi" is justification enough for a toy project.
For me personally "i did a X clone in Python" is always interesting because the language is so easy to read that it makes for a good interface and algorithm documentation. The article made the front page - looks like it is interesting for a lot of other HNrs too.
- peterwwillis 9y agoActually, writing a vi clone in any language is only worth asking why in the hell someone would do that. And the answer is: "because Python." (and in case you didn't realize it was written in Python, the author has reminded you 13 times in the README, and named the clone after both 'vi' and the 'y' in Python)
- gtirloni 9y agoI think we usually see "Show HN" threads for projects where the author expects it to grow (either a company or open source project). I take things like "vy" as the author being proud of what they wrote and wanting to share it. No harm done. I don't see these posts as the author suggesting this is supposed to be the way forward, the new thing, etc. And to be honest, it's usually technically more interesting.
- masukomi 9y agoit doesn't appear to be shared by the author ( iogf ) . It looks like someone who found it ( dajohnson89 ) and thought it worth sharing.