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bombcar • today at 1:39 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Just like any text editor is doomed to become either Emacs or Word, so any image editor is doomed to become Photoshop.


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echion • today at 4:04 AM

Reminds me of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[^1,2]: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

[^1]: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/zawinskis-law/

[^2]: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/

wilkystyle • today at 2:27 AM

Too true. I gave up trying to fight it years ago and now write all my documents in Emacs and edit my code with Microsoft Word.

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sam345 • today at 5:30 AM

Except Vim of course.