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Fine, I'll build my own text editor
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Bluesky
“They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building garbage!
VS Code is built upon Monaco Editor which is a
soup hellscape. I was late to the VS Code train because for years my Intel inside™ Mac was too slow. That issue was resolved when I bought Apple silicon. If that’s the standard I have a lot of room to make mistakes.
My first experiment renders everything on a