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Comments like the parent make me sad. It could be summed up as "node.js, damn hipsters." It's just another form of fanboyism, except negative. There are not m
by szopa 16y ago
Comments like the parent make me sad. It could be summed up as "node.js, damn hipsters." It's just another form of fanboyism, except negative.
There are not many good, scriptable editors for programmers. Actually, I would consider only 3 for serious use: Emacs, Vim and TextMate. Of these, only one has really good integration with OS X.
If I was considering switching editors, the language that is used to extend it would be one of the most important factors (I love Emacs, but Emacs Lisp is seriously broken). The fact that Kod uses node.js means two things:
1) It's JavaScript, so it's high level, has nice semantics and it's extremely popular;
2) It uses a reasonably fast dialect of JS, and has the necessary infrastructure, like CommonJS modules and access to the filesystem.
So, Node.js is the thing that makes this topic actually hacker-news-worthy.
- axod 16y agoI don't really see the language used to script an editor as being really important. But then I've never considered an editor as being that important. As long as it works any will do. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to beat this project down, I'm just pointing out that 'node.js' carries a "wow it must be awesome" weighting at the moment. Give it a couple of years and node.js will be old and boring and there'll be a new fashionable language everyone has to jump on.
- cincinnatus 16y agoI would have whole-heartedly agreed with you right up until a couple weeks ago. Since then I've taken note of the wave of activity happening and really dug in. There are a lot of issues still with Javascript and it's history, but there are some compelling things happening and I think we need to start paying attention and keep an open mind. I suspect that next fashionable thing will be Go btw...