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How does it compare to Sublime Text? This seems to be a FAQ but the link appears to be broken, and I didn't find a corresponding entry in the Wiki.
1- CudaText advantages over Sublime Text 3; 2- CudaText advantages over Visual Studio Code; 3- CudaText disadvantages compared to Sublime Text / VSCode.
Where did you get the broken link?
How does it compare to Sublime Text? This seems to be a FAQ but the link appears to be broken, and I didn't find a corresponding entry in the Wiki.
The proper wiki page - https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor... . 1- CudaText advantages over Sublime Text 3; 2- CudaText advantages over Visual Studio Code; 3- CudaText disadvantages compared to Sublime Text / VSCode. Where did you get the broken link?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by Russia?
The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news…
For example I don't think I can give you a trust to binary packages, like in this case:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cudatext-gtk2-bin
Even if they are not containing anything malicious at this moment, it can happen at any time later, especially after gaining a trust of significant amount of devs. And even with your best intentions I can clearly see a scenario where it will happen against your will or even without your knowledge. You know - it is different thing to trust you, and different thing to trust your state...
Anyway, hope this whole war madness (or "special operation" as you're allowed to call it) will end soon.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news…
Yesterday was about to install CudaText, but as usually with such software, before jumping to anything started to read about your project and you and accidentally got to that quote mentioned above. I must admit, it got me spooked. I have a lot of respect to people who do contribute to open source so I do to you, but in current situation my concern is actually safety and trust. For example I don't think I can give you…
About trust to binary packages: some ppl do build CudaText from source, we have even the bash-script to download the sources + compile them. https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText#How_to_compile_...
If you afraid to get Pascal code with backdoors: Pascal code does not use any internet libs. Python Addons-Manager uses inet-libs though.
Product Marketing Issue: As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.
> As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus. Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs. Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find y…
Notepad Next, is a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++. https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
> And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face...
The insanity involved around hating on Object Pascal is just a damn shame. Other languages wish they had something like Lazarus or Delphi.
Lazarus is fantastic, for the desktop. And so are a lot of software projects created with Lazarus. The few gripes that I have with the project, is the very odd refusal to fully embrace mobile development.
They have a kind of half-way solution, for just Android and not iOS, from an independent developer not on the Lazarus team and who they seem to want to keep at an arm's length. I don't know if Embarcadero (Delphi) is paying them to not touch mobile development, but it's quite weird that they don't want to go in that very obvious direction. Lazarus as a complete solution for both the desktop and mobile, would have people shook. However, the clock is ticking, because there are a number of more comprehensive desktop and mobile development solutions coming. Lazarus should have and arguably could have come out with their combined solution years ago. But, as it is, they are great for the desktop. Nobody can take that away from them.