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Barrin92yesterday at 7:42 PM1 replyview on HN

>What's that, doing actual work rather than labor-of-love open source stuff?

except the 'labor-of-love' stuff is what set the editor apart and why real users were choosing it and the 'actual business work' the moneymen are eager about is exactly what's in every other editor and what nobody asked for


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satvikpendemyesterday at 10:05 PM

They wrote GPUI as a business decision, to focus on performance, because they knew that that would be a core differentiator to all the other IDEs out there that use Electron for example. That they also liked writing it (as a "labor of love") is incidental.

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