Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

Post by brcmthrowaway » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 8:59 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:01 PM UTC

jrvarela56 wrote: post #20

This is amazing content marketing. Developers are an obvious target niche for such a product. Exposing internals of the software in a way HNers enjoy sounds like a great idea, would love to see if it worked as a traction experiment.

Post by krzyzanowskim » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:05 PM UTC

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #19

It's a real shame that Apple doesn't release the source to a recent version of TextEdit. Given its structure (more or less just a stock objects from the API) it would be super educational for anyone who wants to use NSTextView et al.

Post by navane » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:11 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:12 PM UTC

dbalatero wrote: post #14

The author did a great job using images to convey the various concerns each piece of code in the API is responsible for. Also super great detail in the writing. Nice work! This feels like a technical-first article that also happens to generate goodwill for the product, as opposed to a marketing-first technical article that serves up the bare minimum of insights.