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4coder editor is now fully open source

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Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by capableweb »

pengaru wrote: post #9

While I'm not a user of this editor, this seems like great news. 4coder receives significant attention via the Casey Muratori's video streams like Handmade Hero, and opening it up is sure to produce some positive growth for the development/community side of the project. The combination of popular development livestreams and FOSS tooling utilized in those livestreams seems like it could be an important part of making…

> opening it up is sure to produce some positive growth for the development/community side of the project

This is not a "opening up" of anything but the source code, with a permissive license. You're free to fork and change anything you want, but it won't be upstreamed ever as the author did the open sourcing because they are stopping maintenance of the project.

So this is more of a "closing down" with the gift of leaving us with the source code. And for that Allen Webster, I thank you!

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by paskozdilar »

capableweb wrote: post #10
bitva77 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love (not) these posts that assume we know what it is.

I love people who think everything has to be aimed for their consumption. Some things are aimed at a group of people, and written with that in mind. Someone closing a project/stopping maintenance of something, usually write directly to the group of users of the software. To expect everything to contain information about everything someone could not know, means everything would have to be extremely verbose. We have se…

I understand your perspective, but I disagree in this particular case. "Show HN" is obviously aimed at our consumption.

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by 098799 »

I wonder how do people come to a decision that it's a good idea to start their own text editor when vim and emacs exist. For this one my guess is the author is a c/c++ developer and wanted to have their editor cusomizable in their desired language. Would that be enough?

It's also not a common thing for projects like that not to start as FOSS.

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by [deleted] »

098799 wrote: post #16

I wonder how do people come to a decision that it's a good idea to start their own text editor when vim and emacs exist. For this one my guess is the author is a c/c++ developer and wanted to have their editor cusomizable in their desired language. Would that be enough? It's also not a common thing for projects like that not to start as FOSS.

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Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by werner1886 »

lazypenguin wrote: post #14

Anyone know why development is being discontinued?

Just a stab in the dark but him (Allan) and Ryan Fleury are working on a much bigger project atm (https://dion.systems/index.html) which includes an editor too, so i'm guessing they just don't have enough time

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by vinyl7 »

098799 wrote: post #16

I wonder how do people come to a decision that it's a good idea to start their own text editor when vim and emacs exist. For this one my guess is the author is a c/c++ developer and wanted to have their editor cusomizable in their desired language. Would that be enough? It's also not a common thing for projects like that not to start as FOSS.

Yea, being able to customize with C++ is peferable for some people compared to vimscript/lisp/etc. Then you have the issue where emacs and vim can choke under reasonable file sizes. The other part is vim/emacs aren't as performant as they could be
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