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I've been watching/rooting for Xi from a distance for a few years now. This is an excellent retrospective. Well written, but also very honest, especially about
by ZeroCool2u 6y ago
I've been watching/rooting for Xi from a distance for a few years now. This is an excellent retrospective. Well written, but also very honest, especially about those all too typical project highs and lows.
I remember looking at one of Raph's early presentations and being both convinced by his arguments for and impressed with the design decisions made, the same ones he outlines here. After doing some of my own comparatively rudimentary research, coming to similar conclusions as he did. It left me very excited to watch the project develop over time.
One thing I was wondering about is that the Xi website contains a list of front ends similar to the list in the GitHub repo, but includes a Flutter implementation for Fuchsia[1] that is now a dead link and missing from the GitHub list. He mentions it briefly in this retrospective as well. Any ideas what happened to it?
[1]: https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html https://xi-editor.io/frontends.html
- raphlinus 6y agoIt was maintained for a little while after I left Fuchsia (almost two years ago now), but the pace of development on Fuchsia is such that if it's not actively maintained, it bitrots very quickly. And there aren't really any devices running Fuchsia that need text editing at scale.