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This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.

nathancahill 5y ago
Ah yes, <title>[object Object]</title>
JediPig 5y ago
ill give the short answer to this. millions depend on notepad. a small change , can have devastating effects. What if the editor doesn't respond to the same WM_XYZMESSAGE? what if your enterprise depends on an obscure app that modifies notepad. So no, best option create a new editor, but there are 1000 editors out there. look at sublime text 4.. its pure opengl. fast, and epic done right.
- deleted 5y ago
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- csunbird 5y ago
  The parent comment was definitely a sarcasm. I am not sure if yours is.
- scintill76 5y ago
  Won't somebody please think of backcompat with the Notepad raytracer?![1] [1] http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notep...
- drewzero1 5y ago
  For a while I did a job where I had need for a text editor but wasn't allowed to install my own programs on my work computer. I tried using Notepad for a bit but switched to Code Writer and found it an acceptable solution. It seemed to me at the time Microsoft was considering that their 'modern' Notepad alternative(?). I haven't seen much about it since though.
redleggedfrog 5y ago
Ah yes, trade a small, easily fixed, bug for a life-time of JS induced jank. No thank you.
- sergiomattei 5y ago
  The parent comment meant it as sarcasm.
  - ahmedalsudani 5y ago
    Poe strikes again.
  - redleggedfrog 5y ago
    sigh Well, I certainly shot myself in the foot that time. Thank you Sergio for slapping some sense into me.
- augusto-moura 5y ago
  I mean, React Native is not a bad choice for a "new notepad", similar to how they did with the calculator. It can even get the "Microsoft OpenSource Project" seal. See ReactXP[1] a library for React Native from Microsoft Speaking about the calculator app, did you know it is OpenSource[2]? You can only compile to windows as of now though [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
  - cjaybo 5y ago
    The new calculator is written with UWP and C++, right? I'm failing to see the similarity.
    - augusto-moura 5y ago
      The similarity is just the revamp in a old already established UI, nothing to do with React specifically
gruez 5y ago
> This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows. Why? I suppose if your render() function had something like showAstrix = this.state.editorBuffer != this.state.savedBuffer then it wouldn't be subject to the bug, but the performance would be terrible if you're editing a large file. To get good performance you'd need to use a flag and update it accordingly, which will subject you to the same bug.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  You do have me wondering now how long it takes to compare large strings. DDR4-3200 has a peak transfer rate of 25.6 GB/s. So if you were editing a ridiculously large 1 GB text file, you could only make that comparison ~12.8 times per second, and that's assuming the CPU could compare data that fast.
cptskippy 5y ago
Why not Electron?
- Communitivity 5y ago
  Why not Squeak or Oberon?
  - ampdepolymerase 5y ago
    Why not Common Lisp and Mcclim?
    - alphachloride 5y ago
      Or TkInter in python?
      - 0xTJ 5y ago
        Or Cloyster, Landorus, or Minior?
        drummer 5y ago
        Or just pure CSS.
granshaw 5y ago
Can’t tell if serious...
- chapium 5y ago
  A rewrite in Rust would be better tbph.
JoblessWonder 5y ago
It seems like some people are a little too serious for the internet today...
msla 5y ago
Or if it were implemented in my planned record-oriented logic language, a mix of COBOL and Coq called CoqBOL.
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amingilani 5y ago
Or if they wrote to a database on change and read on every cycle. For correctness, blockchain may be suitable.
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- dumpsterdiver 5y ago
  I was aghast when I read this comment until I realized it was sarcasm, and then I got a good laugh thinking about the look I still had on my face. It made me wonder... how many people in any given echo chamber are simply fanning the fire due to a misunderstanding? Probably a lot.
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Last week there was an article about how a tool that monitor WhatsApp contacts' online status can be used to stalk. Because I was bored I did a DDG search, and the top result was a Github repo of a Chrome extension that promised such monitoring. The readme was in broken English and hat lots of emojis, it had 500+ commits so I thought "Must be an active developer". Looking through the commits, the majority of them were "Changed readme" with single line changes to the readme file...
vmception 5y ago
Okay that is hilarious I would drop everything and try to compromise a nested dependency

Ah yes, <title>[object Object]</title>

ill give the short answer to this. millions depend on notepad. a small change , can have devastating effects. What if the editor doesn't respond to the same WM_XYZMESSAGE? what if your enterprise depends on an obscure app that modifies notepad. So no, best option create a new editor, but there are 1000 editors out there. look at sublime text 4.. its pure opengl. fast, and epic done right.

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csunbird 5y ago
The parent comment was definitely a sarcasm. I am not sure if yours is.
scintill76 5y ago
Won't somebody please think of backcompat with the Notepad raytracer?![1] [1] http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notep...
drewzero1 5y ago
For a while I did a job where I had need for a text editor but wasn't allowed to install my own programs on my work computer. I tried using Notepad for a bit but switched to Code Writer and found it an acceptable solution. It seemed to me at the time Microsoft was considering that their 'modern' Notepad alternative(?). I haven't seen much about it since though.

redleggedfrog 5y ago

Ah yes, trade a small, easily fixed, bug for a life-time of JS induced jank. No thank you.

sergiomattei 5y ago
The parent comment meant it as sarcasm.
- ahmedalsudani 5y ago
  Poe strikes again.
- redleggedfrog 5y ago
  sigh Well, I certainly shot myself in the foot that time. Thank you Sergio for slapping some sense into me.
augusto-moura 5y ago
I mean, React Native is not a bad choice for a "new notepad", similar to how they did with the calculator. It can even get the "Microsoft OpenSource Project" seal. See ReactXP[1] a library for React Native from Microsoft Speaking about the calculator app, did you know it is OpenSource[2]? You can only compile to windows as of now though [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
- cjaybo 5y ago
  The new calculator is written with UWP and C++, right? I'm failing to see the similarity.
  - augusto-moura 5y ago
    The similarity is just the revamp in a old already established UI, nothing to do with React specifically

gruez 5y ago

> This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows. Why? I suppose if your render() function had something like showAstrix = this.state.editorBuffer != this.state.savedBuffer then it wouldn't be subject to the bug, but the performance would be terrible if you're editing a large file. To get good performance you'd need to use a flag and update it accordingly, which will subject you to the same bug.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
You do have me wondering now how long it takes to compare large strings. DDR4-3200 has a peak transfer rate of 25.6 GB/s. So if you were editing a ridiculously large 1 GB text file, you could only make that comparison ~12.8 times per second, and that's assuming the CPU could compare data that fast.

cptskippy 5y ago

Why not Electron?

Communitivity 5y ago
Why not Squeak or Oberon?
- ampdepolymerase 5y ago
  Why not Common Lisp and Mcclim?
  - alphachloride 5y ago
    Or TkInter in python?
    - 0xTJ 5y ago
      Or Cloyster, Landorus, or Minior?
      - drummer 5y ago
        Or just pure CSS.

granshaw 5y ago

Can’t tell if serious...

chapium 5y ago
A rewrite in Rust would be better tbph.

JoblessWonder 5y ago

It seems like some people are a little too serious for the internet today...

msla 5y ago

Or if it were implemented in my planned record-oriented logic language, a mix of COBOL and Coq called CoqBOL.

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amingilani 5y ago

Or if they wrote to a database on change and read on every cycle. For correctness, blockchain may be suitable.

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dumpsterdiver 5y ago
I was aghast when I read this comment until I realized it was sarcasm, and then I got a good laugh thinking about the look I still had on my face. It made me wonder... how many people in any given echo chamber are simply fanning the fire due to a misunderstanding? Probably a lot.
bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Last week there was an article about how a tool that monitor WhatsApp contacts' online status can be used to stalk. Because I was bored I did a DDG search, and the top result was a Github repo of a Chrome extension that promised such monitoring. The readme was in broken English and hat lots of emojis, it had 500+ commits so I thought "Must be an active developer". Looking through the commits, the majority of them were "Changed readme" with single line changes to the readme file...

vmception 5y ago

Okay that is hilarious I would drop everything and try to compromise a nested dependency