Lessons learned from implementing a text editor related to front-end development

Post by throwawayjava » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 3:48 PM UTC

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1. Most westerners born outside the USA. And in the USA anyone willing to take out a loan. 2. The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses, which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're studying. Personally, I'd rather work with people who learn some part of that on their own (or even no…

> The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses I went to a school that is very far away from CMU, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc and my core requirements were A LOT more than 4 or 5 courses. I'd have to check by I can name at least 8 core requirements off the top of my head. > which you can for sure cram i…

Post by throwawayjava » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

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1. Most westerners born outside the USA. And in the USA anyone willing to take out a loan. 2. The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses, which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're studying. Personally, I'd rather work with people who learn some part of that on their own (or even no…

Having a 5 year degree in Informatics Engineering, I doubt very much you could cram that much in 6 months. Not at my university, with the amount of stuff we had to do, unless in the 20+ years that have gone by, they got the quality level down.

Post by oblio » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

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The reverse is true. I meet quite a lot of low to middle level programmers that stick to what they know because it's "the basics", and hence completely lack in experience in: 1 - Writing elegant modern code Working with experienced C / Java coders to write proper Python is a challenge. They tend to use twice to many lines, ending up with slower and less readable code. They don't use the additional productivity to pro…

1) You're talking about familiarity with the language and the ecosystem. Take a Python dev and put them into C, and you'll get a buggy, illegible mess. Give your C developer a few years to grok Python, and they'll be as elegant as anyone who cut their teeth on Python (if not more so, for having experience in more than just Python). 2) Funny, there's a near-constant stream of articles on how companies who succeed have…

Post by whowouldathunk » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

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Battery life would take a dive if everyone adopted immediate mode UI for apps. The compromise is something like Win32, where the OS tells you which rectangles in your app to repaint so most of the time you're not doing anything. Both of which are a ton of code if all you want to do is display a list of TODO's with custom styling vs. in markup.

The rate at which you have to update, and what you have to update doesn't change between retained and immediate mode. The only difference is that, with retained mode, the library you're using has, by design, all the knowledge it needs, so it can manage all of that for you. The whole point of using immediate mode is to get rid of this black box from your program, so that you can explicitly state what you want to happe…

    while (true)
    {
         processInput()
         updateState()
         paint()
    }

Post by jdc0589 » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

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I'd like to post a purely positive, encouraging comment here :-) Thanks for the article, and good job implementing an entire editor from scratch in C! That's impressive. Also, as a very accomplished programmer who happens not to have done much recent UI programming, who has read quite a bit about React/Redux/Rewhatever, Elm, The Haskell School of Expression, etc., I find articles like this extremely helpful: you took…

Thank you, for this! I could not say it better/nicer. I was getting upset with the overwhelming negativity here. Monday morning syndrome?