4coder editor is now fully open source • Hacker News Board

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #13

develatio wrote: post #2

For anyone else (like me) who doesn't know what this is, it seems like the website is http://4coder.net

I wish the stock README.md template for every project started with: "What the hell is ________?"

I find it bit of a peculiarity of HN that GH links, no matter how non-descriptive, are so often preferred over projects main home pages.

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by unsafecast » Tue, May 31, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

dividedbyzero wrote: post #22

Seems to be an emacs clone using C++ for customization instead of elisp.

From my very brief experience with it, and watching Casey hack on it, it's a _much_ more well-designed program. I've used emacs quite extensively, and while I don't tinker with it that much, every time I do it feels like a maze with a gazillion dead ends. It's a terrible experience most of the times, and an unremarkable one the rest.

Also, I feel like the C configuration opens the door to using other languages too, Lua comes to mind immediately. You can do that in emacs too, but it's not as straightforward.

One last thing. One of my biggest gripes with emacs is the performance (I'm using a rather low-end computer). I'm making the assumption that a moderately-sized pile of C++ will perform better than a huge pile of elisp.

Re: 4coder editor is now fully open source

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Post by unsafecast » Tue, May 31, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #67

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the stock README.md template for every project started with: "What the hell is ________?"

I find it bit of a peculiarity of HN that GH links, no matter how non-descriptive, are so often preferred over projects main home pages.

In this particular case, the github link makes a bit more sense, as the main topic of discussion was the fact that it's now open source.

I agree with you in general though.

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Post by rtz121 » Tue, May 31, 2022, 7:29 PM UTC

pantulis wrote: post #38

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.

> 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. It's really a smaller decision compared with the point of view that text files as source code are "holding back our tools - https://dion.systems/dion_format.html So these guys are really thinking big.

If text files are holding you back. Smalltalk exists...