alt Hacker News> 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.)
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exceptione • today at 3:14 PM
Thanks, that would indeed be helpful.
> (It's marijn, not merijn.)
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whazor • today at 2:04 PM
I always wondered why there is no code/package overlap between CodeMirror and ProseMirror (or now Wordgard). Have you tried this? Were there particular blockers?
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budgetdrummer • today at 2:34 PM
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I'm part of the Zoho Writer team (Google docs alternative). And the new architecture is very similar to Zoho Writer i.e edits represented as a sequence of retains/keeps followed by action.
Also the decision to forego browser's selection and draw a custom layer.
All this makes reasoning about changes a lot more saner and intuitive. I've always wondered why prosemirror's transactions & steps couldn't be simplified further so I'm one vote up for the new design direction!