Another Microsoft nerd-washing project.
'nerd-washing' such a great term
can someone explain this one to me?
if I had to guess, it's implied open-source-nerd atonement for the closed-source past sins of Microsoft, or something?
Microsoft Edit
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Re: Microsoft Edit
#322I'm just waiting for this thing to turn into an IDE like Turbo C 2.0 ( https://imgur.com/5vyPZdO )
I don't see why this shouldn't turn into a sophisticated code editor. I get that that's not the goal, but there's nothing else like it available -- all other text based editors do their own thing, completely ignoring the common-user interface as if it's a thing they've never heard of ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access )
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a heavy tax to protect the ignorant. I hear things like this and think how I've been using a computer for nearly 4 decades and it's never once happened to me. Maybe those types of people need to re-evaluate their technology choices (maybe iPad is more appropriate) instead of taxing the entire ecosystem to protect them from themselves.
If you count the number of ignorant people who use Windows versus the people like you, you'll quickly realize the tax is very cheap for the level of protection it offers to the number of people it offers it to.
Then they should pay it, not the developers?
Re: Microsoft Edit
#324I'm just waiting for this thing to turn into an IDE like Turbo C 2.0 ( https://imgur.com/5vyPZdO ) I don't see why this shouldn't turn into a sophisticated code editor. I get that that's not the goal, but there's nothing else like it available -- all other text based editors do their own thing, completely ignoring the common-user interface as if it's a thing they've never heard of ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_…
https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ is a TUI editor with something similar to CUA.
Re: Microsoft Edit
#325Microsoft loves to own general terminology like "edit" for their products. I have no idea how this flys. SqlServer like it's the one that found sql or it's the only product that serves sql.
I know what you mean but everyone does this. Apple has Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc. Google has Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc. Meta has Messenger. Far too many examples to list. Conversely, it would be ridiculous to use non-obvious names.
In fact you are right! Somehow This didn't register. Thank you.
Re: Microsoft Edit
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO it should not. `edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).
It might in the future, though, as the main developer has opened an issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/18 The trick is doing it while keeping the binary size small, so tree sitter is not an option.
why would the binary size be big to support this?
Scintilla has been doing syntax color for decades -- it's pretty small.
Re: Microsoft Edit
#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO it should not. `edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).
I think you missed the point of edit.
I think you're assuming people who are thinking of going beyond the original "point" of edit missed that point. We didn't. We're looking new directions it can go.
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Unfortunately Apple normalised it, first with the iPhone. There are upsides (theoretically - less trash apps), but the review/curation process doesn't scale, and yep - the small devs are effectively told to bug off. 10 years ago I wanted to build a Love2D game, and release it for the three major OS's. The .love files are effectively ZIP archives, kinda like cartridges, but you need the correct Love2D version (they br…
No they didn't, signing was already common across Symbian, J2ME, Windows CE/Pocket PC, Newton, PalmOS, Blackberry, BREW. And game consoles naturally.
All of these platforms combined had less global impact over their lifetime than iPhone has had in its first five years.
Apple is never first to do something.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sorry for the snarky comment, but then those devs are simply bad Yes. That is the majority of developers. I had to explain to a dev today (nice enough guy) that he has to actually run the tests. > Windows is legacy, the future is in open source. You can claim the future is opensource but the industry has moved towards SAAS, PAAS, IAAS which is even more lock in than using a proprietary OS such as Windows. So while…
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Re: Microsoft Edit
#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
'nerd-washing' such a great term
can someone explain this one to me? if I had to guess, it's implied open-source-nerd atonement for the closed-source past sins of Microsoft, or something?
More or less, but for current and past sins. Much like green and sports washing.