>This afternoon I sat down to write a mini text editor. i understand reinventing wheels is both fun and educational and grants a deeper understanding of wheels

>This afternoon I sat down to write a mini text editor. i understand reinventing wheels is both fun and educational and grants a deeper understanding of wheels in general, but the way that statement reads is... over confident. the idea that any nontrival standard tool for software developers can be written in an afternoon, presumably from sratch, starting cold, not even done with preliminary researche (as evidenced by the rest of the article), is just silly. >I wanted this to be easy. has the author ever programmed anything at all these things are never "easy" just "easier than once thought", which is rare, and "inexplicably more difficult and obtuse, and motivation enough that time is better spent on other projects" or somewhere in between.