alt Hacker NewsI love a new editor as much as the next guy but has there been any real new/novel features in text editors over last 10 years?
I feel like sublime text got most of it right and every editor since then has been a reskin of the same (just written in a different stack)
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_sinelaw_ • yesterday at 9:29 PM
Sublime, Atom, VSCode, and now Zed are all GUI-based. That's not bad - but I prefer the terminal (and I find tmux + ssh very convenient). I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
For terminal based, there are also many options but not so much in the direction of "VSCode style". They're mostly focused on being "vi-style". And also the huge file support isn't as good in any of the others that I've tried.
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Language server protocol is a huge deal! Without it, I think we'd still see a lot more JetBrains style language bespoke IDE use and a lot less VSCode style text editor + plugin combos.
Since the original post was about a TUI editor, its worth mentioning Helix which supports most modern language out the box. That's amazing and wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.