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> Fine, I'll build my own text editor > “They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. My first kneejerk reaction was, no, Subl
by rf15 1mo ago
> Fine, I'll build my own text editor
> “They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk.
My first kneejerk reaction was, no, Sublime wasn't even that good or performant. We also really don't need another garbage baby's first text editor.
But then
> I’m good at building garbage!
I appreciate the sentiment, and I guess that IS the right approach to the problem, don't take it too seriously. And the rest of the writeup describes some fun basic hoops you have to jump through to build something as simple as a text editor, so good job.