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They don't make 'em like Sublime Text anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209354 - Aug 2026 (13 comments)
There really is a fps counter on there.
Is the experiment seriously rendering continuously in a loop?
Every time someone has that idea they discover that text editing is hard! Kudos to the author that they considered accessibility as well.
I am being pushed to use vs code right now by my team, but we already have a fully programmable and scriptable editor called emacs that is 100000x better. I don't understand why everyone just switches to these random tools. Text editing is a solved problem. Most of the supposed advantages of these tools is just a configuration of vim or emacs.
Text editing is a solved problem.
It's not about the style of cursor, or if rope is used or not. We already have answers to that.
It's about remote editing, LSP support.
Text editors are like mechanical watches or fountain pens. There is just so much beauty in the machinery that makes them. For me, there are hardly any other modules that are this satisfying to watch being made. Each time I find a new one (a good one like this), with everything on ropes and rendering and I-beam placement computations and ... it feels like a Christmas gift.