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When one wants to implement a new desktop UI framework there is an elephant in the room - the rich text editor. You can implement your own layout engine, stylin
by viach 6y ago
When one wants to implement a new desktop UI framework there is an elephant in the room - the rich text editor. You can implement your own layout engine, styling, fonts rendering but production quality feature-rich text editor is another level of complexity.
- rmorey 6y agoevidenced by Raph Levien running out of steam on xi :( https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
- vamega 6y agoI don’t believe xi was a rich text editor. Just a regular text editor, with some interesting design decisions.