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I looked after the XI editor mentioned here and found it being deprecated. Looked at the article again and learned it's from 2018. But I get the argument. Soft

by myspy 3y ago

I looked after the XI editor mentioned here and found it being deprecated. Looked at the article again and learned it's from 2018. But I get the argument. Software should be fast and reliable, but making it fast is not what the customer pays for, when it's good just enough. Having the problem to always start at the bottom is what discourages people to start again. A company in the EU would be needed to build a smartphone and software on par with iOS and Android but we'll never get there.

wholesomepotato 3y ago
Arguably Xi was a design-bloat. I mean - it was a research project. Nothing wrong with it, but the community got super-excited about it, ignoring ... well, the pragmatic reality. Any time it was mentioned it talked about efficiently editing > 1GB files. Super over-flexible plugin system design. For a lean and pragmatic text editor look at Helix, Kakoune, even NeoVim or Emacs.