Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
by smolder on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:56PM
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> the R&D time for something like this would eclipse an equivalent effort in Javascript/web tech.
I think this is less true when you don't assume people know all about web tech already, IOW there would be less of a difference for someone coming into software dev completely naive of web tech.
> There needs to be focus on building tooling that enables rapid development of native applications.
Fully agree.
The time and resources users waste on using such application eclipses the difference in development. One could be folding enzymes instead of waiting for syntax highlighting to finish rendering in vs code.
Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
by dazzawazza on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:42PM
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I'm not sure I agree. There needs to be a focus on building "quality everything" and not "quickest to make anything".
Move fast and break things has become the cancer of software engineering.
There needs to be focus on building tooling that enables rapid development of native applications. GTK is a good example. Glade is a perfectly fine editor, but the underlying tooling for GTK is a mixed bag.