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Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an ap
by kunai 7y ago
Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality.
Nice UI though.
- thunderbong 7y agoI think the 'truly minimal' refers to the UI!
- brazzy 7y agoThere was also a time when vi was considered a memory hog with crazy feature creep.
- kunai 7y agoAbiWord, a word processor with far more rich text features, .doc export, support for multimedia images and charts, etc. uses 4MB of memory on a blank page. There is no legitimate reason for Typora to use literally 18 times the RAM as a fully fledged office application.
- swebs 7y agoI don't remember that at all. Are you sure you're not thinking of emacs?
- brazzy 7y agoNope, definitely vi. I have a vintage book about Unix written ca. 1980, and the author's concern was that "vi's code segment will fill up most of the main memory of a large PDP-11, leaving you little space for the text you're editing". They considered their university's heavily modified fork of ed (the standard text editor, remember?) to be a better choice.
- mceachen 7y agoFWIW, by 1988 the shared servers on UC campuses were sufficiently provisioned to happily run vi, compiler toolchains, and MUDs for several hundred concurrent users.
- dspillett 7y agoThere was a time when vi and some of its variants (for instance vim) were considered relatively heavy, at least on shared servers. I'm thinking back to my Uni days with two rooms full of vt100 clones all connected to one poor box and people telnet-ing in from other locations too (SSH was pretty much brand new at that point so wasn't available). Of course emacs was worse, but there were even leaner options than vi/vim/related too.
- Hitton 7y agoI agree, but I feel it's justified using Electron in this case, because Markdown can be combined with any HTML. So when you need a rendering engine, you might as well use Chromium's from Electron.
- SyneRyder 7y agoTypora is probably the best Electron app I've ever seen, but I ultimately switched to the MarkdownLivePreview package for Sublime Text. I definitely prefer having a more native app over Electron. [1] https://packagecontrol.io/packages/MarkdownLivePreview https://packagecontrol.io/packages/MarkdownLivePreview