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The Slate rewrite looks much better than the previous version. It was a big step for them to remove Immutable, which had to happen given the state of that proje

The Slate rewrite looks much better than the previous version. It was a big step for them to remove Immutable, which had to happen given the state of that project (which, incidentally, got new maintainers last week). I'm not surprised it's rolling steady now. It's good that Ian delegated smoothly. I wondered how he did that rewrite while simultaneously working at Segment as a cofounder… I agree that Slate is nicer than ProseMirror with a more standard code style, the fact that it's not scattered among a bunch of repos, and that it's written in TypeScript. And it's not great that ProseMirror seems to have a bus factor = 1, maybe 2 or 3. That's not the case with Slate right currently, right? It's remarkable you built cocalc with Slate. And the virtualization. Really big work.

williamstein 5y ago
Slate has a bunch of people that are making PR's, which is why there are 80+ open PR's right now. There's evidently been 403 distinct contributors to Slate. I don't know how to see on GitHub, but I remember a Slate developer saying Ian had delegated something like 10+ people as having commit rights for Slate (I'm not one of them). The introductory documentation that Ian wrote for Slate is also really useful and a pleasure to read, and when you need more deeply technical documentation the source code serves that purpose well. Thanks regarding the encouragement regarding cocalc+Slate; I need to get back to that part of Cocalc soon!