There’s one big difference between a text editor and other example apps (Illustrator and Excel). Excel is used widely and even with file portability. Microsoft

There’s one big difference between a text editor and other example apps (Illustrator and Excel). Excel is used widely and even with file portability. Microsoft Office is still what many people are used to. Illustrator, In addition of been being popular. It uses their binary ai file format making it harder to switch from. TextEditors unlike those 2 does plain text. So there’s at least no file lock-in for plain text.