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IMVHO too many fails to comprehend what "editor" means. Now it means just "something to edit text", in the past means "human-computer interface". ACME is moder
by kkfx 5y ago
IMVHO too many fails to comprehend what "editor" means. Now it means just "something to edit text", in the past means "human-computer interface".
ACME is modern respect of Tioga (Xerox) or Emacs, but it's still a classic editor, or the human-computer interface. Plan 9 while address many unix shortcoming it's still the successors of unix so it's still shell-centered and ACME was/is it's tentative to came back to classic OSes, so editors, models, while retaining unix "cheapness" and "raw simplicity".
I think at Bell Labs someone have thought that "perhaps we still find a way to a non crappy and archaic OS, while satisfy big business needs against the users" so something that was a desktop but still networked in a way that push toward modern data centers/cloud model. That's because re-reading IT history since original Xerox desktops almost all the industry seems to have do it's best do deprive end users of control on their own systems to shift it toward some vendors. All we have today was essentially designed back then, and changed to be proprietary and centralized from emails (now essentially webmails and proprietary chat platforms) to modern "recommendations engines" vs classic user-local scoring tools.
Editors was the biggest and more evident change: from desktop UIs to mere text-writing tools. After a certain amount of time big and narcissist IDEs arrive, explode and then people tired by their bloat want again "classic editors" without even really knowing them, so arrive the era of Sublime, VS Code etc, notebook UIs (like Jupyter) etc perhaps in another decade or two we will unveil the new shiny and powerful editor, witch happen to be a copycat of old Tioga and co...