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Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

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Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#141

So this is a major side question, but is there a go-to open source infinite canvas? I'm building a card game and I need a multiplayer infinite canvas for it. I'd appreciate any recommendations.

Does tldraw work for you? We use Pixi JS, which comes with graphics as well.

Last I checked Miro also uses Pixi so that's another quality infinite canvas app.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#143
Digression, but among two contributors there are over 100,000 commits and the year listed is only 2024. That's an insane amount of commits (about 200 per person per day). Did they use autocommits? Would love to learn the tooling and devprocess that was used.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#144

So this is a major side question, but is there a go-to open source infinite canvas? I'm building a card game and I need a multiplayer infinite canvas for it. I'd appreciate any recommendations.

Does tldraw work for you? We use Pixi JS, which comes with graphics as well.

I think the biggest pain point for me is that nothing I've found supports cards that can be "flipped" so that they are face up or face down. I'm not an advanced coder but maybe I'll try to whip something up.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does tldraw work for you? We use Pixi JS, which comes with graphics as well.

I think the biggest pain point for me is that nothing I've found supports cards that can be "flipped" so that they are face up or face down. I'm not an advanced coder but maybe I'll try to whip something up.

tldraw does look amazing though, thanks.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#146
I often use `code` command in the cli for a bunch of tasks. Mostly to just open an instance of vscode in a dir I am at. Is there a plan for such a command like that for haystack-ide?

Meanwhile, an alias is easily created for macOS: `alias needle="/Applications/Haystack\ Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron"`

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#147
This is very cool and building for a future of 100% AI generated coding, but for some reason I don't feel the urge to use it right now. I think it's because using the mouse turns me off. I use Vim or Vscode with Vim keybindings so any workflow depending on a mouse won't work for me.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#148

Digression, but among two contributors there are over 100,000 commits and the year listed is only 2024. That's an insane amount of commits (about 200 per person per day). Did they use autocommits? Would love to learn the tooling and devprocess that was used.

I guess that's because it is a VS Code fork.

Re: Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas

#150
This looks like a very simple mindmap, but more annoying to use because of the big elements. Some automated positioning seems very necessary here. Additionally, what about proper mindmap/diagram-features and notes?

If you take a look at https://obsidian.md/canvas you will see that they have things like colored groups and different element-types. And their community-extensions have many more improvements for the canvas. Just focusing on navigation seems wasted. A good focus on mixing code, documentation and notes might be a more worthy goal, I think.

Anyway, as this is forked from VS Code, does this also support normal vscode-extensions and other features like workspaces? And does it receive updates from the original, or is it fixed to the initial forked VS Code-version?

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