[techbro92]

I don’t understand the design constraints and goals that would lead to someone choosing this design. It seems like an insane amount of complexity. I also don’t know much about web development. Wouldn’t it be much simpler to just build a C++ application? I think one possible reason for choosing a web based design is because web frameworks can look really good. But I think this is not an important thing to optimize for in an editor, especially if it’s coming at the expense of performance.

[loup-vaillant]

To give a bit of context to those who don’t display dead comments, I was making fun of them for choosing to write their text editor on top of a web browser engine. I could have been more polite and merely pointed out that in all honesty, it’s hard to see a web browser engine ever being the right tool for the text editor job, unless of course the web is the only thing you know.

I chose mockery instead.

See, it looked like the authors of this tool weren’t entirely innocent. The whole website oozes the need for recognition, it’s pretty with a well crafted sales speech… and the first comment I see here mentions a segfault on install. On install. Which suggests the quality of the product probably doesn’t match the nice cover it is given.

That’s wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gIJOy0c2g