alt Hacker NewsI think most people would love to the know the 'why'. This page discusses differences with prosemirror and is the closest I got to that question: (https://wordgard.net/docs/prosemirror/).
One thing to note is that there is not an upgrade path. Many concepts are shared with prosemirror, but it seems that switching means doing quite some work (correct me if I am wrong). Obsidian is based on Code Mirror so I guess they won't be switching, but tiptap.dev and others do.
@merijn, maybe you could address why wordgard is worth the switching cost?
EDIT: I see many points are addressed in Merijns personal blog. I submitted (https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/wordgard-0.1.html) to HN for better context.
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From the blog:
> I'm not all that fond of the ProseMirror pun anymore either (it's CodeMirror but for prose, get it?)
So... It's time for someone to create Codegard, i guess?
"Why is it worth the switching cost?" is the genuine question I have too. Or more importantly, why not just make it ProseMirror v2? The landing page needs more information about the "why" rather than the "what".
> why wordgard is worth the switching cost?
It may not be. If you're happy with ProseMirror, continue to use ProseMirror. I have your back.
But as the blog posts describes, I had a whole pile of new design insights that avoid some of the issues I've ran into with ProseMirror, so I had the itch to build a new iteration.
I'll add a link to the blog post to the docs section of the website.
(It's marijn, not merijn.)